Jonathan Trigell > Quotes

“The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the shark is just a fucking shark. So how can you say, "I like the bit where Jaws bites the boat"?”
― jonathan trigell, Boy A

“What had he done? Something horrible, something terrible, but something he'd done as a child. Can you commit murder in innocence? It's too big a thing for the human mind to take in, that's the problem. And it grew with the ever-larger newspaper pictures of a girl who was near enough an angel, even before she died. Only the young die good. And Angela Milton died young enough to be perfect.”
― Jonathan Trigell

“Si ricordava, ai tempi del processo, come tutti quelli che conosceva erano rimasti sconvolti al pensiero di cosa sarebbe stato avere una figlia uccisa in quel modo. Così brutale, insensato, malvagio. Nessuno si era fermato a pensare invece, a cosa sarebbe stato avere un figlio che era l'assassino. E' per questo che i due dovevano per forza essere malvagi, essere diversi: altri, demoni. Non potevano essere quello che un bambino normale sarebbe potuto diventare, nelle stesse circostanze.”
― Jonathan Trigell, Boy A

“But he knew he didn't like Morrissey: he'd had enough misery already.”
― Jonathan Trigell, Under Country