Top 32 Donal Ryan Quotes
#1. but sometimes when you took a chance it was better to hold nothing back and to go all-in. He
Terry Brooks
#2. I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.
Roy Keane
#3. Sure wasn't I at least the author of my own tale? And if you can say that as you depart this world, you can say a lot.
Donal Ryan
#4. There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.
Donal Ryan
#5. That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were never there.
Donal Ryan
#6. Nora said, "I thought vampires drank virgin blood. They hypnotize ... they turn into bats ... " Setrakian said, "They are much romanticized. But the truth is more ... how should I say?" "Perverse," said Eph. "Disgusting," said Nora.
Guillermo Del Toro
#7. He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.
Jim Thompson
#8. It's an old copy and it's starting to fall apart, but I hold on to my Handbook because nothing else makes promises like that around here, promises with these words burning inside them: honor, duty, and try.
Tupelo Hassman
#9. Even so, a lie in print looks truer than the truth sounds from the mouth of a fool.
Donal Ryan
#10. People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.
Donal Ryan
#11. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#12. That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?
Donal Ryan
#13. I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I'm thinking. Why can't I find the words?
Donal Ryan
#14. The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy, or the hard light of knowing in people's eyes.
Donal Ryan
#15. I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.
Richelle Mead
#18. All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.
Donal Ryan
#19. You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
Karen Elson
#20. Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
William Glasser
#21. Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented on everything. Nothing was ever done right or cooked right or handed to him properly or ironed straight or finished off fully with him.
Donal Ryan
#22. I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form?
Donal Ryan
#23. When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.
Demi Lovato
#24. Sometimes I look at Daddy, at his side or his back or his face, and I love him so much that it feels like he's a prize I won for doing something brilliant, better than anyone else.
Donal Ryan
#25. Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her craziness. She could just as easily have been a Muslim or a Buddhist or a white witch.
Donal Ryan
#26. For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.
Jenny Diski
#27. The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves.
Donal Ryan
#28. We are told that religion says: 'God gave us brains' - and then they also quickly add: '-but God doesn't want us to use them'. Ridiculous.
Christina Engela
#29. The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.
Kimberly Derting
#30. Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse.
Donal Ryan
#31. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence
Donal Ryan
