67 quotes found
Writer · Irish
Irish writer
“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”
“What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”
“Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”
“If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you”
“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
“when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time o...”
“...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...”
“It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do c...”
“If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. The...”
“I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice betwe...”
“Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.”
“So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was d...”
“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things l...”
“Devereaux is going with our pitch.Hey, thats just great, I said superperkily. Wendells or mine?Yours.But you want to fire me. So fire me.We cant fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly...”
“I couldnt be with people and I didnt want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into...”
“Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.”
“When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. But youve loads of shoes, he bellowed joyfully. I shook my hea...”
“Two and a half years ago Id learned to stop wanting comfort from the people around me, because they couldnt give it. We were all too scared. I was terrified and so were they. No one could understan...”
“The last time Id been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had fallen into several different camps:The Lets Laugh It Off merchants: Cla...”
“People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Som...”
“Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.”
“My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I...”
“They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, eve...”
