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Meehan Quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Buying Winkles" | "My Mother would spare me sixpence and say, 'Hurry up now and don't be talking to strange men on the way'" |
| "Buying Winkles" | "The winkles would be wet and glisten blue like little night skies themselves" |
| "Buying Winkles" | "I envied each soul in the hot interior" |
| "Buying Winkles" | "The sweetest extra winkle that brought the sea to me" |
| "Buying Winkles" | " Proudly home like torches" |
| "The Pattern" | "Little has come down to me of hers, a sewing machine, a wedding band, a clutch of photos, the sting of her hand across my face in one of our wars" |
| "The Pattern" | "I wish now she'd lasted till after I'd grown up" |
| "The Pattern" | "First she'd scrub the floors with sunlight soap" |
| "The Pattern" | "Did she net a glimmer of her true self?" |
| "The Pattern" | "I have her shrug and go on knowing history has brought her to her knees" |
| "The Pattern" | "We'd grow solemn as planets in an intricate orbit around her" |
| "The Pattern" | "'Christ he was a right tyrant, your Granda. It'll be over my dead body anyone harms a hair on your head'" |
| "The Pattern" | "To me it spelt poverty, the stigma of the second hand" |
| "The Pattern" | "I was sizing up the world beyond our flat patch by patch daily after school, and fitting each surprising city street to city square to diamond" |
| "The Pattern" | "The world beyond her already a dream, already lost" |
| "The Pattern" | "She favoured sensible shades: Moss Green, Mustard, Beige" |
| "The Pattern" | "I dreamt a robe of colour, so pure it became a word" |
| "The Pattern" | "Sometimes I'd have to kneel" |
| "The Pattern" | "Or flew like fish in pools of pulsing light, she'd reel me firmly home" |
| "The Pattern" | "Tongues of flame in her dark eyes, she'd say 'One of these days, I'll teach you to follow a pattern'" |
| "SVGS" | "It can be bitter here at times" |
| "SVGS" | "Its seeds of ice would cut you to the quick" |
| "SVGS" | "The howling won't let up" |
| "SVGS" | "They call me Mary - Blessed, Holy,Virgin." |
| "SVGS" | " though mated to no mortal man" |
| "SVGS" | "fly up like sparks from a bonfire" |
| "SVGS" | "It can be lovely here at times" |
| "SVGS" | "cries out to be incarnate, incarnate" |
| "SVGS" | "Death is just another harvest" |
| "SVGS" | "Bargains struck, words broken, prayers, promises" |
| "SVGS" | "I did not move, I didn't lift a finger to help her" |
| "SVGS" | "Hear me have pity" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "Rapping the duster on the easel's peg" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "Or mark my words you'll end up in the sewing factory" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "That those words 'end up' robbed the labour of its dignity" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "Not that I knew it then, not in those words" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "Trussed like chickens on a conveyer belt" |
| "TEMIBAP" | "Words could pluck you, leave you naked, your lovely shiny feathers all gone" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "Either phrase will bring it back - money to burn, burning a hole in your pocket" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "While Zeus and Hera battle it out:" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | " For his every thunderbolt she had the killing glance; she'll see his fancyman and raise him Cosmo Snooker Hall;" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "I'm net, umpire, and court; most balls are lobbed over my head" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "When he handed up his wages" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "The flames were blue and pink and green, a marvellous sight, an alchemical scene" |
| "Hearth Lessons" | "Like trapped exotic birds; the shadows jumped floor to ceiling" |
| "PCL" | "Here at the heart of winter here at the heart of the city" |
| "PCL" | "Grant us clarity of ice" |
| "PCL" | "Grant us the forest's silence" |
| "PCL" | "The needle in its track the knife in the back" |
| "PCL" | "The streets that broke their backs the streets that we brought them home to" |
| "PCL" | "Let their names be the holiest prayers" |
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