Irish Fiction Quotes

#1. So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.

David Louden

#2. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Dan Rather

#3. Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.

Meredith Jaeger

#4. A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

Declan Kiberd

#5. Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

Bernie Mcgill

#6. All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.

Sandi Layne

#7. But love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offense,
Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

William Shakespeare

#8. Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Terry Eagleton

#9. He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

David Louden

#10. They're hopes and wishes and reminders and all the times I smiled, knowing he'd remembered me while he was gone.

Penelope Douglas

#11. Atty's eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

Tricia Murphy

#12. In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Mark Nepo

#13. Fear
Only
Constraints
Undeveloped
Strength
where your eyes look to within,
is what your heart will believe.

Anthony Liccione

#14. I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

Peter Capaldi

#15. Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Colum McCann

#16. Perhaps he found it strange being accompanied by a Chinese-Nigerian arms trafficking pirate, but the Irish priest had just followed me silently on board the covert government transport.

Dayo Ntwari

#17. His face in my dreams,
seizing my guts,
he floods me with dread.
Soaked in soul,
he swims in my eyes
by the bed.
Pour myself over him,
moon spilling in
And I wake up alone.

Amy Winehouse

#18. He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

David Louden

#19. Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

Anna Gavalda

#20. What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history

Peter Cunningham

#21. But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around - it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.

Morgan Matson

#22. It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.

David Louden