Blood Brothers (paper 2)

• Narrator: '"There's shoes on the table an' a joker in the pack"'
• Narrator: '"Someone broke the lookin' glass"'
• Narrator: '"Now y' know the devil's got your number, y' know he's gonna find y', y' know he's right behind y'"'
• Narrator: '"the salt's been spilled"'
• Narrator: '"You're walking on pavement cracks"'
• Narrator: '"The dealers dealt the cards, and he won't take them back"'
• Narrator: '"There's a black cat stalking and a woman who's afraid"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"Oh God, Mrs Lyons, never put new shoes on a table…You never know what'll happen"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"I'm not superstitious"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"they say that if either twin learns that he was once a pair, they shall both immediately die"'
• Edward: '"It's just a secret, everybody has secrets, don't you have secrets?"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"You never put new shoes on the table"'
• Edward: '"Don't you know what a dictionary is?"'
• Edward: '"Pissed off. You say smashing things don't you?"'
• Edward: '"Are you feeling better now, Mummy?"'
• Edward's Teacher: '"Talk of Oxbridge"'
• Edward: '"I'm going away to tomorrow…to University"'
• Mickey: '"It used to be just sweets an' ciggies he gave me"'
• Mickey: '"You sorted it out. You an' Councillor Eddie Lyons"'
• Mickey: '"Well, how come you got everything...an' I got nothin'?"'
• Sammy: '"he's a friggin' poshy"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"I start a job next week. I'll have money comin' in an' I'll be able to pay y'"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"Havin' babies, it's like clockwork to me"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"you are not like them"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"It's a pretty house isn't it? It's a pity it's so big"'
• Narrator: '"A debt is a debt and must be paid"'
• Edward: '"Why…why is a job so important? If I couldn't get a job I just say, sod it and draw the dole, live like a bohemian"'
• Mrs Johnstone: '"And when he grew up / He could never be told / To stand and queue up / For hours on end at the dole / He'd grow up to be / A credit to me"'
• Narrator: '"There's a pact been sealed, there's a deal been born"'
• Mickey: '"Ey, we were born on the same day…that means we can be blood brothers"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"You learn filth from them and behave like this like a, like a horrible little boy, like them. But you are not like them. You are my son, mine, and you won't, you won't ever…"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"It's just…it's these people…these people that Edward has started mixing with. Can't you see how he's drawn to them?"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"Afraid he might eventually have forgotten you? On no. There's no chance of that"'
• Mrs Lyons: '"I started…just for a while I came to believe that he was actually mine"'
• Mickey: '"Why didn't you give me away? I could have been…I could have been him!"'
• "So, did y' hear the story of the Johnstone twins? As like each other as two new pins, Of one womb born, on the self same day, How one was kept and one given away?"
• Nature vs Nurture


  The relative significance of a person's inborn individuality, which is considered as "nature" versus individual experiences, which is "nurture", in shaping or causing differences in physical and behavioural character.
• Mickey: '"If I was like him I'd know all the right words"'
• Mickey: '"Naked knockers with nipples…"'
• Mickey: '"She's a fuckin' head case."'