Jackie Kay Quotes
- (After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving:…
- Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going…
- How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that…
- When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part…
- Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like…