The Family Across The Street Quotes
"I remember being seven and playing marbles at school, winning game after game and clapping with glee."
"I think I tried to be a nice man, to be the kind of man who could be loved, but that didn’t work."
"‘It’s going to be okay,’ she says softly to them."
"Whatever you do for a job, it’s better than not having one."
"‘You really should know how to discipline these kids better,’ I say to her."
"My parents finally got divorced when I was twelve years old."
"For the first time in a couple of years, the house was quiet when they were both home."
"Both of them kept reassuring me that they loved me."
"My life wasn’t going to change except my father would no longer be living with us."
"The reasons for their split have never been fully explained to me."
"I remember her face, the way her eyes dropped to the ground and she flushed a bright red."
"‘He’s such a bastard,’ she muttered as we drove home."
"Every time I heard them fight, I vowed that my life would be different."
"‘If you lived with me,’ he would say, ‘you would be able to eat whatever you want.’"
"He’s not capable of taking care of you. He’s lonely and I understand that, but it wouldn’t be a good idea."
"‘I want to live with Dad,’ I said to my mother. ‘He’s lonely.’"
"That’s exactly why you shouldn’t live with him. Rules are there for a reason."
"‘I hate you.’ That always stopped her in her tracks."
"‘Just six months,’ she said. ‘And you need to call me every day and come and visit every weekend.’"
"Your life is your responsibility. If you want to attend school and do the work, that’s up to you."
"‘Please just… please…’ says Katherine, because she has no idea what else to say."
"‘Let her go, let her go,’ Katherine says, trying to inject strength into her voice."
"‘I’m sitting, see, I’m sitting,’ she says, even though it’s obvious."
"She feels George start patting Sophie on the back, desperate to help, to somehow make things better."
"‘They need something to eat,’ she says, a plan forming in her mind."
"‘Fine, they can get some food,’ he finally replies."
"‘Let me go with them,’ she says, hoping that she has kept the eagerness out of her voice."
"No, no… George, you go, take Sophie, have some… some fruit before you eat anything else."
"If you don’t come back in five minutes, I will shoot your mum in the head."
"You’re torturing them. How could you do this to them?"
"‘Stop doing that,’ he says and she realises that she is still twisting the ring."
"‘I don’t think you deserve these children,’ he says. ‘Some women shouldn’t be mothers.’"
"‘Some men shouldn’t be fathers,’ she says softly."
"‘I will love and protect you forever,’ he had whispered to them both."
"And what are you going to do for money without me? How are you going to take care of these kids?"
"You are so ready to toss me on the trash heap, Katherine, so ready to just get rid of me."
"You could call me Mother or Mum, you know."
"‘They took themselves off for a fancy meal,’ Maddy told him two days later."
"Someone beat her up. They have no idea who but I told the constable who called me I thought it could be that boy."
"I’ll kill him, I’ll kill him, I’ll kill him."
"‘You always do what Mum says, don’t you, George?’ he sneers at the child."
"Never trust a woman. Don’t ever trust a woman."
"Your father and I did our best with you kids, but nothing was ever good enough."
"‘What’s your problem?’ His parents did not do their best – nowhere near it."
"‘I know my daughter, Logan,’ he said. ‘If she thinks you’re an okay bloke, then that’s good enough for me.’"
"‘I’m sorry, old girl,’ he says eventually. ‘I’m a bit of a difficult old man, aren’t I?’"
"Gladys can’t concentrate on the TV – she can’t stop thinking about what to do about Katherine and the children."
"Your imagination is going to get you into trouble, she admonishes herself silently."
"Gladys moves in her chair, uncomfortable with the image."
"‘You can never leave well enough alone,’ he says."
"‘It won’t take more than a few minutes,’ she sings, determined not to let his admonishments stop her."
"‘Something is definitely not well over there… Something is very unwell,’ she says as she takes out her muffin tray."
"‘Well, you must have a sixth sense,’ Emmaline replied."
"‘Why are we watching this violence?’ she asks Lou."
"Do you know that when my father died, I waited two days before calling the police?"
"‘Please don’t tell me you’re sorry for me. I am so tired of hearing the word "sorry" from you.’"
"‘You could get help,’ I said. ‘Those people got help.’"
"‘I may just do that,’ he agreed, but then he opened another beer."
"‘I felt like I had no one to turn to when he died,’ I say."
"‘Yes,’ he agrees, ‘yes, I do.’ He looks at her, his green eyes meeting hers."
"‘I’m going to kill you,’ George says, his voice filled with an eerie menace."
"‘Look, chocolate chip muffins,’ he says, grabbing the plate from George."
"‘You need to finish your story,’ she says quietly."
"Nothing makes a man more dangerous than hate."
"You think that this is the solution to your broken heart, but it’s not."
"I will not allow you to hurt these children."
"People think it’s a single, contained sound but it has a slight tail of noise after the initial, shocking explosion."
"All I did was what I usually do. I interfered."
"I thought you were gone and I understood that I had let so much petty bullshit stop me from being the husband and father I wanted to be."
"I cannot hate him for what happened. It’s not possible. He was my son."