"He says when your grandmother died your mother……" — Jon McGregor
"He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?"
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21 Quotes by Jon McGregor
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If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought…
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
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Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of…
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on…
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You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is…
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If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a…
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I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much…
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He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes…
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