42 Quotes by Jackie Kay

Some men fall in love with a woman,Some women fall in love with a man,Some men fall in love with another man,Some women fall in love with another woman -But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland.- Shetland

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

Make sure that the very different colors go next to each other so it looks deliberate. You don't want to look as if you've just run out of colour and gone for the next nearest thing.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.

Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There’s a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you’d gone the other way, death would have been a different home.