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Writer · Irish
Irish writer
“I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.”
“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire...”
“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.”
“I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothin...”
“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”
“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contr...”
“I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen Walsh, you're a genius.He had a point. I'm lazy and illogical. I've limited p...”
“Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”
“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cann...”
“You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”
“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”
“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”
“No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.”
“Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.”
“He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?”
“Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.”
“He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.”
“If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.”
“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.”
“If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you”
