164 quotes found
Novelist · Irish · 1981
Irish novelist (born 1981)
“Oh, it's called, em...' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.''You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.''What's that?''Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-”
“Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”
“Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl. He wouldn't want me to do that now but I've set my mind to the task regardless. I'm staring beyon...”
“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly ...”
“She roared with laughter. Passersby gave her strange looks, but she didnt care. If shed been able to stretch her vision to see beyond the trees he disappeared behind, she would have stopped laughin...”
“Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.”
“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the wa...”
“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”
“You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.”
“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
“They say a story loses something with each telling.”
“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.”
“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.''And yet it is still extremely funny.”
“All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name...”
“As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do so ...”
“I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by h...”
“It was the most perfect moment in my life.It was the last perfect moment in my life.”
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”
“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
“SpringThe season between winter and summer, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe months March, April and May.The ability of something to return to its original shape when it is pressed down, st...”
