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“ My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation. ”

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It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

~ Jackie Kay

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

~ Jackie Kay

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

~ Jackie Kay

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

~ Jackie Kay