Paul Kearney Quotes

#1. I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

Paul Kearney

#2. Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

Paul Kearney

#3. That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

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#4. It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

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#5. Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

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#6. He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

Paul Kearney

#7. I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.

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#8. But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.

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#9. He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.

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#10. No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

Paul Kearney