Tally's Blood - Memorising Quotes

Question 1

ROSINELLA - I don’t know anybody…

Answer 1

ROSINELLA - I don’t know anybody works so hard as the Italian men

Question 2

ROSINELLA - You said…

Answer 2

ROSINELLA - You said you got plans for my Lucia

Question 3

ROSINELLA - Franco, he’s Italian…

Answer 3

ROSINELLA - Franco, he’s Italian, he’s played around a wee bit with some Scotch girls - so what? You’re no the first and you’ll no be the last

Question 4

ROSINELLA - marry your…

Answer 4

ROSINELLA - marry your own kind. You watch none of them catches you

Question 5

ROSINELLA - these Scotch girls…

Answer 5

ROSINELLA - these Scotch girls they’re all the same. They just go out with you for one thing - because your father’s got a shop and they think you’ve got money

Question 6

ROSINELLA - listen hen…

Answer 6

ROSINELLA - listen hen, you’re Italian, that makes you special

Question 7

MASSIMO - listen Rosie…

ROSINELLA - oh…

Answer 7

MASSIMO - listen Rosie, I thought you went to Glasgow to buy yourself a new coat?

ROSINELLA - oh, but when I saw that wee dress I just had to get her it

Question 8

MASSIMO - (smiles with…

Answer 8

MASSIMO - (smiles with great affection. Squeezes her cheek between his thumb and fore finger)

Question 9

MASSIMO - listen hen…

Answer 9

MASSIMO - listen hen, you’ve no to bother about paying it back you hear?

Question 10

MASSIMO - I always thought…

Answer 10

MASSIMO - I always thought I was lucky. I had two countries. Now I feel I’ve got nowhere

Question 11

BRIDGET - see if Italy…

Answer 11

BRIDGET - see if Italy does come into the war, Mr Pedreschi, you’ll no have to worry. Everybody likes you.

Question 12

BRIDGET - I thought…

Answer 12

BRIDGET - I thought Franco didn’t love me. You told me that

Question 13

HUGHIE - I have waited…

Answer 13

HUGHIE - I have waited years-years for Lucia. Blending into the background, knowing my place - ‘och it’s just you’

Question 14

HUGHIE - I have come…

Answer 14

HUGHIE - I have come for Lucia and I am not leaving without her

Question 15

LUCIA - I had to feed…

Answer 15

LUCIA - I had to feed the pigs Rosinella…and fetch the water and pick the olives

Question 16

LUCIA - If I want…

Answer 16

LUCIA - If I want something I’m not supposed to get - I just - cry

Question 17

FRANCO - I cannie be expected…

Answer 17

FRANCO - I cannie be expected to spend my whole life working from morning till night in a wee pokey shop

Question 18

LUIGI - when you’ve finished…

Answer 18

LUIGI - when you’ve finished the clothes, you’ve to come up to the house. Ma wife’s going to teach you to clean a chicken

Question 19

ROSINELLA - “Twelve years…

Answer 19

ROSINELLA - “Twelve years I’ve been married - and nothing. Me an Italian as well.”

Question 20

MASSIMO - “Let them take…

Answer 20

MASSIMO - “Let them take what they like, waste what they like. So long as they leave you alone.”

Question 21

ROSINALLA - “Italians are good…

Answer 21

ROSINELLA - “Italians are good for this country. Who else is prepared to work till eleven o’clock every night, eh?”

Question 22

LUIGI - “They saw the planes…

Answer 22

LUIGI - “They saw the planes lighting up the sky. They heard the bombs falling and the buildings crashing down, and they didn’t know if our house would still be there.”

Question 23

THE MOB - “Get the…

Answer 23

THE MOB - “Get the bastards. Waste the place. Facist pigs. Greasy Tallies.”

Question 24

BRIDGET - “I was pregnant…

Answer 24

BRIDGET - I was pregnant and it was Franco’s baby

Question 25

ROSINELLA - “We brought her…

Answer 25

ROSINELLA - “We brought her up. And I didn’t do it for him. You tell him that. I did it for my sister.”