Blood Brothers: Key Quotations (AQA GCSE English Literature): Revision Notes

Blood Brothers: Key Quotations

Below is a list of all of the quotations we have covered organised by character and theme:

Social Class and Inequality

1. Mrs. Johnstone: "By the time I was twenty-five, I looked like forty-two, with seven hungry mouths to feed and one more nearly due."
2. Mickey Johnstone: "How come you got everything … an' I got nothin'?"
3. Edward (Eddie) Lyons: "Why is a job so important? If I couldn't get a job I'd just say, sod it and draw the dole, live like a bohemian."
4. Mrs. Lyons: "You won't tell anyone about this, Mrs. Johnstone, because if you do, you will kill them."
5. Sammy Johnstone: "Y' know Mickey, I'm thinkin' of doin' another job."

Superstition and Fate

1. Mrs. Johnstone: "They say that if either twin learns that he was once a pair, they shall both immediately die."
2. Mrs. Lyons: "I curse you. Witch!"
3. The Narrator: "And do we blame superstition for what came to pass? Or could it be what we, the English, have come to know as class?"
4. The Narrator: "There's a pact been sealed, there's a deal been born."

Violence

1. Mickey Johnstone: "I wish I was our Sammy."
2. Sammy Johnstone: "I got y' I shot y'. An' y' bloody know I did."
3. Edward (Eddie) Lyons: "I thought I was going to shoot you. But I can't even do that."
4. Linda: "I love you. But, Mickey, not when you've got them inside you."