“I was triumphant at having picked her up. We had a drink and went back to Stu’s flat, buying fish and chips on the way.” - John Lennon
“There were definitely two sides to John…his softer side came out in his initial love and tenderness for Cynthia.” - Pete Best
“People say Cynthia was a mundane, hometown girl, ‘mumsy’ - your average Mrs Liverpool. That’s a load of nonsense. Cynthia was a highly talented woman in her own right. She painted, she drew, she sculpted, she designed.” - Julia Baird (John’s sister)
“I was hysterical. That was the trouble. I was jealous of anyone she had anything to do with. I demanded absolute trust from her, because I wasn’t trustworthy myself. I was neurotic, taking all my frustrations out on her. She did leave me once. That was terrible. I couldn’t stand being without her.” - John Lennon
“George and Paul both thought it a great laugh that John was so keen on Cynthia, the lovely girl who used to go to art school with him. Even then, four years before they married, they were crazy over each other. Cyn used to travel thirty miles a night from her home in Hoylake just to sit by the stage of the Casbah, listening to John playing with us.” - Ken Brown (former member of the Quarrymen)
“They were totally opposites but right for each other, and although they came from different backgrounds, they were a perfect match. I think they would have obviously taken longer to get married, but it would have happened. They loved each other very much. There was no separating them” - Phyllis McKenzie (mutual friend)“She was very pretty-Bardot like. I used to look at her from across the canteen and then I heard she had been caught by that shit Lennon. They looked at each other adoringly, totally fixated.” - Michael Isacson
“It was said I never loved Cyn. That’s far from the truth. We were young, bigheaded, and got into a physical relationship too soon. Perhaps if we took things slow we would have made it. I know we would have made it.” - John Lennon (1974)Quotes taken from Beatles Girls
