58 quotes found
Author · Irish · 1975
Irish author (born 1975)
“Capitalism needs war.”
“I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.”
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't”
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't ”
“Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them.”
“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expec...”
“Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disi...”
“It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.Maybe it reminds them of school, she suggests. Didnt someone des...”
“The importance of humor is primarily to puncture fixed ideasto make us step back and realize that our situation, whatever it may be, is, in the grand scheme of things, always contingent and arbitra...”
“Theres no escaping it, hed been fond of telling us when he was well, the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge yo...”
“The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life as it's lived today. I'm not talking about straight-up escapism, your vampires...”
“Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable ...”
“None of it made any difference. The hollow feeling refused to go away. The next days were very hard. I found myself in the grip of a crippling ennui. I was back at square one, but I couldnt bring m...”
“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under...”
“I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history. In Renaissance times they...”
“Mrs. P.? Oh no. Shes the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if theres one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, its t...”
“You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day happen to you: that you too will win a Formula One race, hop a train, foil ...”
“When I came to againparched, pain rampaging through my intestinesI was in my bed. The little bedside lamp illuminated two anxious faces, my sisters and Mrs. P.s (the latter looking a shade guilty, ...”
“I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.”
“People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.”
“I only meant, you know, you shouldnt be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but thats no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong peopl...”
“It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.”
