Dublin Street Quotes

#1. I gulped inwardly. Outwardly, I tilted my head to the side with a wry grin. "You're good with the words, I'll give you that."
"I'm good with my hands. Will you let me give you that?"
Young, Samantha (2012-10-12). On Dublin Street (Kindle Locations 1917-1919). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

Samantha Young

#2. There are more balls in twenty feet of street here then there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. We've only got three months. There's no time for space.

Samantha Young

#4. Let's start the next chapter, baby.

Samantha Young

#5. The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

Joseph Fort Newton

#6. Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer's porch. Our choice is in the drinking.

Harley King

#7. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

Victor Hugo

#8. You just never know what hurts people are living with, do you? Were all so good at hiding them.

Samantha Young

#9. History does show that boys who dance are far more likely to pass along their genes than boys who don't.
Boys who dance are genetic volcanoes.

Andrew Smith

#10. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.

Samantha Young

#11. Oh so i was right last night then. Unlike me, she has your love.

Samantha Young

#12. He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem.

Glenn Haybittle

#13. I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.

George MacDonald

#15. Your life can be what you want it to be ... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Douglas Pagels

#16. The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred.

Tana French

#17. We're still us," I managed, blinking back tears.
"I don't want there to be any awkwardness between us."
"There won't be. I won't let there be if you won't."
"Good, Sweetheart. Good. We'll just forget about this. It didn't mean anything.

Samantha Young

#18. Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

Glen Hansard

#19. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

#20. I didn't freak out. I immediately reached around my back, pulling the gun out of my waistband leveling it at the man's face. Well, maybe that was me freaking out. Who knows?

Natalie Carlisle

#21. There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

Liam Neeson

#22. He had gone beyond frightened, past terrified, and straight to petrified.

Michael Scott

#23. The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Samantha Young

#24. She's definitely a romance writer. I've primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle if she didn't become a romance writer.

Samantha Young

#25. He followed you into the staff room and didn't come back for twenty minutes and when he did come back, he looked like he'd been mauled by a woman who'd been locked in an empty room without a vibrator, or a man for ten years!

Samantha Young

#26. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.

Debasish Mridha