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Aunt Polly Gray

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If I come for you, and I still might yet decide to come for you, I will wear high heels so you can hear my approach on the cobblestones, and have time to repent.

— After your recent troubles, Tommy asked me to keep an eye on you.
— "Troubles"? Whilst working for this company, I have killed a man, I have lost a man, I have found a son, I have nearly lost a son, I have nearly lost my own life. Now, I will accept my job back, if the terms on offer are favourable...

Ada Thorne/Shelby

Aunt Polly Gray

Problems, Troubles, Issues

Sarcastic Quotes

If it wasn't for me, you'd be smoke blowing out of a mortuary chimney.

— So am I right? Did you fall for Tommy?
— Yes, I did.
— Then I pity you.
— You think he'll try to kill me?
— That's too soft.
— Soft?
— Soft. You saved his life the night the coppers came. That's why we're drinking, not fighting. We owe you.
— What was he like? Before France?
— He laughed. A lot. He wanted to work with horses.
— He won medals?
— Threw them in the cut. Not a single man came back the same. You know, after all this is over, he might forgive you. He might take you in. Can never tell with men. They go for whoever their dicks point at and there's no changing their minds. But I should tell you something. I will never forgive you. Or accept you. Or take you in. And that's me who runs the business of the heart in this family. And as far as I'm concerned, you're a snitch from the parish.

Aunt Polly Gray

— ... You took four bullets. Only one was live. One was a ricochet... Two were already spent.
— Two has passed through John. The last thing I remember was his face. I watched him go.

Aunt Polly Gray

— Never thought my high-fucking-heels from Paris would be stepping through the horse shit of Small Heath ever again.
— Temporary, Polly.
— Yeah, until hell freezes over.

Aunt Polly Gray

Ada Thorne/Shelby

Sarcastic Quotes

— One man should be here.
— You're right, Pol. Freddie should be here.
— Is that a heartbeat I hear inside that chest?
— The truce lasts until sunrise.

When Thomas' younger sister was giving birth, Polly asked one of the men to stay, for protection Thomas allowed to call Freddie, the sister's husband, with whom they had a common feud.

Aunt Polly Gray

— It's beautiful. It's made in Paris.
— It was stolen in Birmingham. My mother stole it from the house she was cleaning, 1901...
— No, no. It's yours. It belongs on you. A woman of substance and class. Believe me, I've painted many women who don't belong in there expensive dresses.

Aunt Polly Gray

Painting, Painters

— Pol. I've had an idea.
— Oh, fuck.

Aunt Polly Gray

Sarcastic Quotes

— Whose report?
— The testimony of children.
— Who have they spoken to?
— You'd have them only speak to God.
— God be their witness.
— There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders. This is Sparkhill, we're in Small Heath. We are much, much closer at hand than God.
— And we have heard terrible things.
— We have, in this place, children of the worst sort. They lie as easily as breathe.
— You had a child half black. You made her wash with a different soap.
— Mr Shelby, your own sins are legend.
— Our sins... Our sins against the beating of children with bricks and hoses. Our sins. Our sins... against the black child who hanged herself for fear of your temper.
— I do not see how...
— You do not see! Now put them on. Put them on your face, or it'll be your eyes that are broken. Please don't imagine that I won't use this minute to do it, or that I am afraid of your prayers or your crosses.
— You see the world broken. Like those beaten children will.

Polly and Thomas found out about the nuns' abuse of children at the shelter they sponsored and came to pick up the children.

Aunt Polly Gray

Beating, Battery

I don't want to see you here when I get back. If I get back. Everything's an "if" in this Birmingham life.

— You know, our mother went this way — spirits and ghosts, tablets, fucking... fucking seances scaring us kids halfway to fucking death.
— Yeah, well, I'm not going that way. Cos on the smoke, I realised something. I'm just like you now, you and Arthur. I was dead in that noose, and then I was saved. So everything from now on is extra. But what I didn't understand until today... is when you're dead already... You're free.

Aunt Polly Gray

Sometimes the women have to take over. Like in the war.

— This is how John wanted to go. On the smoke. But the truth is, we died together once before. Arthur, me... Danny Whizz-Bang, Freddie Thorn, Jeremiah, and John. We were cut off from the retreat, no bullets left, waiting for the Prussian cavalry to come, and to finish us off. And while we waited... Jeremiah said we should sing In The Bleack Midwinter. But we were spared — the enemy never came. And we all agreed... That everything after that was extra... And when our time came, we would all remember.
— You remember that God spared you. But what did you do with the extra time that he gave you, eh, Thomas?

Aunt Polly Gray

— You know, my mother used to say this about you. She said, "That Polly Gray, that child would never let go of a grievance... and she loves to dance." What do you say, hm? You want to dance?
— I don't dance anymore.
— Yeah, that's a shame... [when Polly leaves] Cos you're dancing with me.

Luka Changretta came to commit a vendetta against the Shelby family.

Luca Changretta

Aunt Polly Gray

— I'm getting back in this car.
— Michael, you're number two on Luca Changretta's hit list.
— Yeah, and I'll stay in a hotel.
— You stay in a hotel, I'll know where you are, so will the people who take you there, so will the people who work in the hotel, and hotels don't move around. They don't even know where they'll be tomorrow. They follow the Patrin and the crows.

Aunt Polly Gray