"Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken."

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Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

Jackie Kay

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“I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.”
“And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.”
“I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?”
“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”

Source : James Hogg, James Thomson, Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Scottish Gothic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City of Dreadful Night, A Beleaguered City”, p.108, Palimpsest Book Production Limited
“Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.”
“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”
“We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.”
“I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.”

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