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Carol Ann Duffy
Poet Laureate. Before You Were Mine is about her mother in 1950s Glasgow.
The quotes
3 quotes by or about Carol Ann Duffy, in the order they happen.
I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello
Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory
Duffy looks at a photo of her mother before she was born. She wanted that girl, the fun one.
The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory
The ten years before the baby arrived were the mother's best. Duffy knows it. She was the yell.
stamping stars from the wrong pavement
Duffy · Before You Were Mine · parents and children · memory
Her mother dancing, sparks from her heels, in the wrong place for a good girl.
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