IMPORTANT QUOTES
I give you an onion
Emotions of characters - Valentine
Here
Emotions of characters - Valentine
I am trying to be truthful
Emotions of characters -Valentine
if you like
Emotions of characters - Valentine
My brother cried, one of them bawling, Home, Home
Emotions of characters - Originally
I stared
at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw
Emotions of characters - Originally
I locked the cat in the cellar. I moves the phone. The toilet I didn't mind.
Emotions of characters - Mrs Midas
The reader's eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch bears.
Emotions of characters - War Photographer
We came from our own country
Impact of loss - Originally
I want our own country, I said
Impact of loss - Originally
I miss most,
his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch.
Impact of loss - Mrs Midas
That night, i dreamt I bore
his child
Impact of loss - Mrs Midas
My dream milk
burned in my breasts.
Impact of loss - Mrs Midas
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Phen.
Impact of loss - War Photographer
possessive and faithful
Contrast - Valentine
Lethal.
Contrast - Valentine
Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel
Contrast - War Photographer
fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat
Contrast - War Photographer
All childhood is an emigration.
Transition and change (theme of change) - Originally
my tongue
shedding its skin like a snake,
Transition and change (theme of change) - Originally
Separate beds.
Transition and change (theme of change) - Mrs Midas
Do I only think
I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space
and the right space?
Impact of Memories - Originally
big boys
eating worms
Impact of Memories - Originally
once a bowl of apples stopped me dead.
Impact of Memories - Mrs Midas
I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,
Impact of Memories - Mrs Midas
He remembers the cries
of this man's wife
Impact of Memories - War Photographer
I drove him up
under the cover of dark. He sat in the back
Specific experiences - Mrs Midas
a beautiful lemon mistake
Specific experiences - Mrs Midas
spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
Specific experiences - War Photographer