164 quotes found
Novelist · Irish · 1981
Irish novelist (born 1981)
“There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”
“Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”
“Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of...”
“I dont want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory.”
“Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.”
“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”
“the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.”
“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”
“People come and go.”
“Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.”
“Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when p...”
“That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. Youre both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.”
“People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming ...”
“And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up...”
“Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
“But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”
“Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.”
“Miracles only grow where you plant them.”
“What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada,...”
