Annabel Pitcher > Quotes

“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“So long, Bird Girl,' he whispered, changing the emphasis to stress the first word. 'So long,' I agreed, because a life without him would be.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Da lo mismo la lengua que hables o la ropa que lleves. Hay cosas que no cambian. Las familias. Los amigos. Los enamorados. Son iguales en todas las ciudades de todos los países de todos los continentes del mundo.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“I like winter and I like the dark and I like cats and I like the rain and I like walking up mountains and sitting at the top in the fog . That's all I need to know about my life right now. It's pretty simple”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Algunas veces. Todo el mundo necesita que le escuchen”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“I never realised there was so much of it,' Sandra muttered. 'Hours. I feel every minute.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“Doesn’t matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don’t change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They’re the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“We meet again, Spider-Man she said.

And I replied How many people have you saved today, Girl M.

She pretended to count on her fingers. Nine hundred and thirty-seven she shrugged. It's been a quiet day. We started to giggle. How about you, Spider-Man.

I scratched my head. Eight hundred and thirteen I said. But I started late and finished early. We exploded into laughter. We do the same joke every single day and it never ever gets boring.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“My stomach fluttered and my adrenaline tingled and I felt young, Mr Harris, really young in this precious sort of way”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“She said Halloween is a British tradition and it has nothing to do with being a Christian. I almost said Why do you celebrate it then 'cos I always forgot she was born in England.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“Los edificios y los adoquines y las escaleras y los callejones y las iglesias y los parques…, todo, la ciudad entera, nos perteneció por un precioso instante que era largo y ancho y, Stu, lo llenamos hasta el último resquicio.
Aquello era vivir.
Vivir de verdad”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“good reasons to do bad things”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Y si lo tengo que escribir, prefiero hacerlo con lápiz para poder borrarlo todo inmediatamente, suprimiendo por completo esa parte de mi vida para que se disuelva en la nada y yo pueda empezar de nuevo, dibujándome como quiero ser, que es con una sonrisa de libertad y un corazón puro y un nombre que pueda escribir con mayúsculas porque no me dé miedo revelarlo en una carta garrapateada en un cobertizo.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“Y sin pensármelo dos veces, sin preocuparme por las consecuencias, le agarré la cara y tiré de ella hacia la mía, y nuestras bocas se encontraron con tanto ímpetu que me dolió de la forma más dulce posible.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“«Para siempre en mi pensamiento, para siempre en mi corazón».”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“I got you this. I held out the brown, fluffy bear. To replace Burt. I pulled his eyes off and everything.”
― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

“Escribiendo no existe lo del nudo en la lengua, pero si existiera, si mi mano fuese como una lengua enorme, de verdad le digo que la tendría atada con uno de esos nudos complicados que solo los boy scouts saben deshacer.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“—¡Deja de jugar con la comida! —le dijo por signos mi madre.
—Son nubes —respondió Dot.
—Las nubes no son rojas —dijo por signos Soph.
—Es el amanecer —replicó por signos Dot, desafiante—. Porque en mi plato está amaneciendo. Y a la salchicha le parece precioso. —Le esculpió una sonrisa a la salchicha con el cuchillo.
—Vaya desastre —le dijo por signos mi madre.
—Pero un desastre bonito —sonrió Dot. Le dio la vuelta a su plato para enseñárselo a nuestra madre. La salchicha estaba tumbada de espaldas, sonriéndoles a las nubes de kétchup.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“If I could feel it for you, I would,'he murmured and honest truth I would have given anything to push my pain right into his chest.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds

“You might not be a lion, Tess. That's fine. Neither am I. But we're still cats, aren't we? Just because we don't roar, doesn't mean we have to be silent.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Silence is Goldfish

“Ahora, señor Harris, estará usted probablemente esperando que le diga que le di patadas al arbusto o que me eché a llorar o que corrí al aparcamiento y monté una escena. Pues siento decepcionarle y todo eso, pero me quedé con la cara completamente tranquila y el cuerpo completamente inmóvil. Lo único que hice fue romper una telaraña, partiéndola en dos con el canto de la mano. Una mitad se quedó en el muro y la otra mitad balanceándose de una rama, y esa es la única prueba que hay en el mundo de que sentí que algo se me rompía por dentro.”
― Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds