164 quotes found
Novelist · Irish · 1981
Irish novelist (born 1981)
“Your heart can break at any age.”
“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
“To hell with you all, I DO believe”
“Its not easy remembering the good times.”
“Miracles only grow where you plant them.”
“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”
“At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lo...”
“Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make u...”
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
“Ive learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. Its a battle...”
“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”
“Hope like that, as I thought before, doesnt make you a weak person. Its hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how ...”
“at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than youve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be a...”
“I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a batt...”
“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2...”
“life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is ju...”
“As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victo...”
“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars”
“She got a sense that their time together was valuable, as though she needed to hold on to every minute as if it were their last. He was too good to be true, every moment spent with him magical, so ...”
“Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.”
“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared”
“sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.”
“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”
