Nine Days Quotes

Kip when dropping out of school

"I'm my own boss now."

Kip, grief for father as he was studying while he died

"I didn't even say goodbye to him that morning. On account of a book."

Kip, grateful to Alec for finding the photo of connie and jack

"You've given me my sister back, Alec."

Kip’s advice to Alec

"Every time you see someone, you never know if you're seeing them for the last time."

Jack, about Connie dancing

"Hours could pass and I'd still be watching Connie Westaway dance."
Jack could watch “Connie Westaway dance” for hours

Jack, wanting to kiss Connie

"Just let me kiss you, Connie. I'd die a happy man."

Charlotte, using pendant to determine pregnancy

"After a few moments it begins to circle, slowly, anti-clockwise. I'm pregnant."

Charlotte when using pendant to determine whether or not to keep baby

"Now it is no longer my problem. I have offered it up to Gaia (Earth)."

“It is not longer” Charlotte’s “problem” when she uses the pendant to determine whether or not to keep the baby as she “offers it up to Gaia (earth)”

Francis, asking about money

"What are we going to do for money?"

Francis and his reputation

"Do you not understand how sensitive a reputation is?"
“sensitive a reputation is?”

Annabel, about Kip being the one

"I've already made up my mind."

Jean to Kip because Francis is the one attending school and favourites Francis

Francis needs meat in the morning, for his brain

Jean, about family's status

"We're a decent family. We're halfway up the hill."

Jean, when finding out Connie's pregnant

"You can't keep secrets around here."

Why Jean makes Connie get an abortion

"This is why I'm doing this. It's so Connie has a chance of being a madam."

Jean abusing Connie for her unplanned pregnancy

"I say loose woman and I say no morals and I say bastard and I say slut."
Jean verbally abuses Connie for having an unplanned pregnancy and calling her names such as a “bastard” and a “slut”

Alec, about Charlotte

"She is ruining my life."

Alec, complaining about how he lives

"On account of I live in Nazi Germany."

Alec complains that he lives in “Nazi Germany”

Alec, about Charlotte's parenting methods

"You mean apart from my Mother bringing me up Amish?"

Alec, describing himself when he decides to go to Kip’s house to return the photo instead of going with his friends

"I am without doubt the biggest moron in the history of moronness."
“moron”

Alec, what helps him to decide whether to return the photo or go with his mates

"What if he dies tonight?"

Connie's belief, ending words of the book

"Everything will be all right."

Connie telling her mum about her pregnancy

"Ma. There's a baby."

Connie begging Ma not to have an abortion referring to Jack

"It's all I have of him."

Connie, when bleeding out on the street from abortion

"It's alright Ma... I won't go anywhere."

how jacks lucky shilling came into the westaway family as a heirloom. Mr hustings to Kip

Mr Hustings holds his other hand out … theres a shilling

Jean on not having enough money to send kip and Francis to school.

We cant live on my wages. Francis will have to leave school.

Jack on the shilling

that was my lucky shilling

Charlotte when asking the pendant about her pregnancy

I hold the pendant between my hands … I close my eyes and say a few words to the universe.

Francis when Annabel told Mac that he had the pendant

you just dont know when to shut up

jean telling connnie not to have the baby as it would ruin the family’s reputation

you cant have it. you wouldn’t be so stupid

connie when jean told her not to have the baby

I’m having it I don’t care

francis on kip when he found the photo of connie and jack

it was the first photo he ever took … it was what made him decide to spend his life taking photos

Charlotte about how the pendant connects her family together

“My mother gave it to me and my father gave it to her. it is my connection with all those that have gone before me”

Connie on photographs and memories

“they last forever”

Kip on finding the photograph when trying to hide the Nintendo

a loose brick under the house

Connie on gender roles

We woman do what’s expected

Francis on the pendant he stole from the old lady

It’s a beaut, the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen… There’s no way I’m sharing this. It’s mine

Jean on her family

We’re respectable people

Stanzi telling Charlotte she does’t need to have the baby

You don’t have to have it, you know.

Alec after getting picked last for a team and then spending time with Kip to learn basic things like throwing and catching. (he never got picked last again)

“I was picked last for some team'“