Quotes from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“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.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“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.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“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.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“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.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“I got you this. I held out the brown, fluffy bear. To replace Burt. I pulled his eyes off and everything.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“We meet again, Spider-Man she said.

And I replied How many people have you saved today, Girl M.

She pretended to count on her fingers. Nine hundred and thirty-seven she shrugged. It's been a quiet day. We started to giggle. How about you, Spider-Man.

I scratched my head. Eight hundred and thirteen I said. But I started late and finished early. We exploded into laughter. We do the same joke every single day and it never ever gets boring.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“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.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“Nonna dice sempre che la gente è verde d'invidia, ma io non sono d'accordo. Il verde è calmo, fresco, pulito e piacevole come il dentifricio alla menta. L'invidia invece è rossa. Ti brucia nelle vene e ti accende un fuoco nella pancia.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“La tua forza mi dà il coraggio di volare.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

“When we were leaving London, Dad spent about an hour trying to push his wardrobe through the bedroom door. He turned it on its side. He tried it upside down. He tilted it one way and then the other but it just would not fit. Words like "Mum" and "Affair" and "Dad" and "Drinking" were just like that wardrobe--too big to get out. No matter what I did, I couldn't fit them through the space between my teeth.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Rollercoasters: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Reader

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