Daughter Quote by Jon McGregor

Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.

— Jon McGregor

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

— Jon McGregor

“the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of…

— Jon McGregor

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep…

— Jon McGregor

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool,…

— Jon McGregor

“The world didn’t always sound right when it was first explained.”

— Jon McGregor

“And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed,…

— Jon McGregor

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

— Jon McGregor

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so…

— Jon McGregor

“He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form,…

— Jon McGregor

“By the middle of the afternoon it had rained so much that the drains were overflowing, clogged up with leaves and newspapers. The water…

— Jon McGregor

“Her name was Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She'd been wearing a white hooded top with a navy-blue body-warmer. She would be twenty-three years…

— Jon McGregor