Pigeon English Quotes
"You could see the blood. It was darker than you thought."
"She wasn’t even crying, she was just stiff and fierce like it was her job to scare the rain back up into the sky."
"Some of the spelling was wrong but I didn’t mind."
"I said a prayer for him inside my head. It just said sorry."
"In England there’s a hell of different words for everything."
"Then I wasn’t sure. Connor Green was laughing, I didn’t even know why."
"I love going in the lift, it’s brutal, especially when you’re the only one in there."
"It’s proper windy at the bottom like a whirlpool."
"I saw X-Fire painting his name on the wall of Stockholm House."
"Papa’s voice go proper echoey like he’s trapped in a submarine at the bottom of the sea."
"His feet felt scratchy on my hand like a chicken’s."
"There’s always a shock even if it happens every time."
"The shoeshine boys should know you never steal from the dead."
"You only get to be righteous if you can sing every church song without looking at the words."
"The first time I shanked someone was the worst, man."
"You can’t feel them or see them or anything. Germs are very tricky!"
"When Agnes says hello it makes your ears ring like a crazy bell!"
"The launderette is a shop just for washing machines."
"Violence always came too easy to you, that’s the problem."
"Sometimes you could play djembes instead or just pray. God’s probably bored of the songs by now, he’s heard them a million times already."
"If I had to be numb forever it would just be too vexing. I’d have to pick everything up with my mouth instead like a dog."
"It’s those things you do while you’re pretending death isn’t waiting around the corner that determine what look he’ll have on his face when you bump into him."
"The whole thing takes donkey hours. When you iron the hair you only do a little bit at a time."
"It’s better if you don’t see us coming, believe me."
"That’s your only duty. The rest of the time you can just have fun like normal."
"The lines make a square. Only if you stay in the square you’ll be safe."
"You can also hide in the bins. Nobody will look for you in there because of the smell."
"If you’re a good climber you can climb on the garage or up a tree. They can still see you but they can’t get you."
"Another hundred points to Harrison Opoku! I told you my Diadoras were the fastest!"
"I could feel his killing thoughts coming loose and filling the air like extra sharp rain."
"The lady in the chair car was right in front of me, I nearly crashed into her."
"I ran for the church. I tried to get in but the door was locked."
"When I turned around Dizzy was still at the top of the hill breathing proper hard like a broken tro-tro."
"I waited for my breath to come back then I carried on running."
"When I’m old my chair car will be faster for getaways and the tyres will be bigger so it can get over the bumps."
"Only the junkies use them and they’re too sleepy to even see us."
"The best time was when I saw the pigeon nest. They live on the windows of the Pikey House."
"Our base is the stairs outside my tower, the ones that go to floor 1."
"People acting guilty or doing something strange."
"If I killed somebody I’d just run away so the police don’t catch me."
"They wouldn’t drive all the way to a chip van if the chop was rank."
"Always tell a dog good boy when he does something good. Then he’ll only do good things after that."
"They only know how good they are if you keep telling them."
"If you didn’t have fingerprints you could be anyone you wanted."
"All the things you think are just there for no reason are actually to help you or protect you from something."
"Eyebrows are there to keep the sweat out of your eyes."
"Everybody has the same defences. They all have eyebrows and fingernails and eyelashes."
"The floor outside my flat is perfect for driving my beach buggy."
"It felt brutal. I wanted it to last forever."
"Poppy doesn’t need to wear make-ups because she already is beautiful."
"The best bit is when I get to protect her from the bad things."
"It felt crazy already but you had to stay proper still."
"If I know how to kiss properly then Poppy will never cut me for another boy."
"The playground was dying but nobody was trying to save it."
"The air was thick and full of killing thoughts."
"I ran past the other pigeons. I pretended they called hello to me."
"It felt like I remembered how beautiful she was and it made me scared."
"I only wanted to snap the pirate ship before it sank forever."
"We have to see what came up from under the ashes."
"I couldn’t see it anymore. All babies look the same."