Annabel Pitcher Quotes

#1. I am big and I am strong and I am powerful- a girl of Everest proportions who won't easily be conquered.' - ppg 26

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. That is love, making endless tea for someone who never drinks it, just in case this is the morning they might actually want a sip.' -ppg 4

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#5. My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.

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#6. good reasons to do bad things

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#7. Take the road less travelled sometimes. And other times stick to the path that will lead you to success and a decent career." - Jack to Tess; ppg 117

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#8. A leopard can't change its spots and a dog can't change its temperament and a planet can't change its position in the universe.' - ppg 9

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#9. At least the tree knows where it stands. It had a sense of place. It's fixed. Attached. And I am lost.
I belong to nothing, and no one, but that's all going to change.' - ppg 165

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#10. That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

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#11. He was just standing on an ordinary pavement as cars roared behind him, and there was nothing special about it whatsoever except my heart didn't seem to realise. It soared out of my chest and into the sky, a flash of scarlet in all the blue.

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#12. My stomach fluttered and my adrenaline tingled and I felt young, Mr Harris, really young in this precious sort of way

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#13. I like that attitude. Got to make your own opportunities if there aren't any coming your way." - Uncle Paul; ppg 161

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#14. I never realised there was so much of it,' Sandra muttered. 'Hours. I feel every minute.

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#15. I wandered familiar streets feeling lost in the darkness, too scared of the stuff inside my head to be afraid of anything outside it.' - ppg 5

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#16. I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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

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#20. 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.

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#21. I got you this. I held out the brown, fluffy bear. To replace Burt. I pulled his eyes off and everything.

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#22. My words travelled through my veins which hung in the sky like telephone wires.

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#23. You killed someone you were supposed to love and I killed someone I was supposed to love, and we both understand the pain and the fear and the sadness and the guilt and the hundred other feelings that don't even have a name in all of the English language.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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?

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#28. 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.

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