Tally's Blood - Memorising Quotes Flashcards
ROSINELLA - I don’t know anybody…
ROSINELLA - I don’t know anybody works so hard as the Italian men
ROSINELLA - You said…
ROSINELLA - You said you got plans for my Lucia
ROSINELLA - Franco, he’s Italian…
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
ROSINELLA - marry your…
ROSINELLA - marry your own kind. You watch none of them catches you
ROSINELLA - these Scotch girls…
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
ROSINELLA - listen hen…
ROSINELLA - listen hen, you’re Italian, that makes you special
MASSIMO - listen Rosie…
ROSINELLA - oh…
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
MASSIMO - (smiles with…
MASSIMO - (smiles with great affection. Squeezes her cheek between his thumb and fore finger)
MASSIMO - listen hen…
MASSIMO - listen hen, you’ve no to bother about paying it back you hear?
MASSIMO - I always thought…
MASSIMO - I always thought I was lucky. I had two countries. Now I feel I’ve got nowhere
BRIDGET - see if Italy…
BRIDGET - see if Italy does come into the war, Mr Pedreschi, you’ll no have to worry. Everybody likes you.
BRIDGET - I thought…
BRIDGET - I thought Franco didn’t love me. You told me that
HUGHIE - I have waited…
HUGHIE - I have waited years-years for Lucia. Blending into the background, knowing my place - ‘och it’s just you’
HUGHIE - I have come…
HUGHIE - I have come for Lucia and I am not leaving without her
LUCIA - I had to feed…
LUCIA - I had to feed the pigs Rosinella…and fetch the water and pick the olives
LUCIA - If I want…
LUCIA - If I want something I’m not supposed to get - I just - cry
FRANCO - I cannie be expected…
FRANCO - I cannie be expected to spend my whole life working from morning till night in a wee pokey shop
LUIGI - when you’ve finished…
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
ROSINELLA - “Twelve years…
ROSINELLA - “Twelve years I’ve been married - and nothing. Me an Italian as well.”
MASSIMO - “Let them take…
MASSIMO - “Let them take what they like, waste what they like. So long as they leave you alone.”
ROSINALLA - “Italians are good…
ROSINELLA - “Italians are good for this country. Who else is prepared to work till eleven o’clock every night, eh?”
LUIGI - “They saw the planes…
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.”
THE MOB - “Get the…
THE MOB - “Get the bastards. Waste the place. Facist pigs. Greasy Tallies.”
BRIDGET - “I was pregnant…
BRIDGET - I was pregnant and it was Franco’s baby
ROSINELLA - “We brought her…
ROSINELLA - “We brought her up. And I didn’t do it for him. You tell him that. I did it for my sister.”
