Top 100 Moira's Quotes
#1. I didn't do anything wrong. I swear.'
He grunted. 'Like I've never heard that before. Funny, but I expected a little more originality from Moira's daughter.'
'Yeah, well, the dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses.
Mindee Arnett
#2. Here. There. Everywhere." He leered at his friend. "Thinking about you and Moira's
underwear.
Dana Marie Bell
#3. Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster
but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.
Jessica Khoury
#4. Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.
I stare at him.
I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.
That's my girl.
Moira Young
#5. Whatever it is, I sure didn't go lookin fer it.
You don't hafta, she says. If it's meant to be, it'll find you. We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't. Not really.
Moira Young
#6. That was ... I don't even know what that was." Derek's voice was nothing more than a rasping whisper. "That was making love, dirty style.
Moira Rogers
#7. No, you need to listen, she says. This ain't Silverlake, an you ain't the daddy. Out here in the real world, the person who knows what they're doin is the daddy an right now, that's me. So. Do like daddy says an shift that tasty butt of yers. Unless, of course, you want it shot off.
Moira Young
#8. Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind.
An that's fine.
That's right.
That's how it's meant to be.
Moira Young
#9. Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
Moira Johnston
#10. My heart breaks. I hear it break. I feel it.
Moira Young
#11. Pa? You never said. What'm I gonna be? Good or bad?
He kisses the top of my head. Whispers in my ear, so's only him and me can hear. You, my darlin daughter, are gonna be somethin else entirely.
Moira Young
#13. I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.
Moira Kelly
#14. Lugh's decided to stick with bein mad at me. It's like traveling with a storm cloud. One of them that hangs low an heavy. The kind that builds an broods an keeps on buildin an brood in till everybody's got a sick headache.
Moira Young
#15. Walking through the West Village one night, he had a eureka moment: He would make a gay bar, but for straight people. It was a brilliant idea. Soon after, he opened the first T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper East Side.
Moira Weigel
#16. Don't you dare walk away from this, Jack, don't you dare, Molly says fiercely. Most people don't ever feel what yer feeling. Be with her. An if it lasts one hour, one night, a week a month, it don't matter. Be with her, burn with her, shine with her ... fer whatever time's given to you.
Moira Young
#17. We don't choose the times we're born in, he says. That's the business of the stars. The only choice we got is what we do while we're here. To make it mean somethin.
Moira Young
#18. There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#19. It towers above us, dark an jagged an dangerous. Behind it, more mountains stretch as far's the eye can see.
Is this th'only way to Freedom Fields? I says.
No, says Jack. I brought you this way because I thought you'd enjoy the scenery.
Moira Young
#20. Love makes you weak. Carin fer somebody that much means you can't think straight.
Moira Young
#21. You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.
Moira Kelly
#23. Some things are jest too big to fergive.
Moira Young
#24. The heartstone burns, fierce an true. I bin missin him so deep. It hurts my heart to see him agin. I open my mouth to call his name. I stop myself. His head snaps in my direction. Like he knows I'm here.
Moira Young
#25. Well, we all gotta die. You jest gotta hope you die good.
Moira Young
#26. Friends don't owe ... Friends don't repay.
Moira Young
#27. There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.
Moira Young
#28. There is nothing truly painful about this, except the knowledge that, eventually, you'll stop touching me. That's what hurts. Moira.
Edie Harris
#29. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.
Moira Katson
#30. Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
No!
If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.
Moira Young
#31. Thing is, he says, in my line of work, you spend a lot of time sittin. A dress lets the breeze up ... cool yer dingles down. There's a lot to be said fer a skirt.
Moira Young
#32. The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.
Moira Young
#33. We're on our own. An I feel calm. It seems crazy ... but I'm calm. Because now I see what I gotta do. An what I ain't gotta do, which is waste time thinkin that anybody's gonna help us. That somebody's gonna come along an rescue us. I cain't count on nobody but me.
Moira Young
#34. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Dan Simmons
#35. So let's raise our glass to the accident season,
To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,
To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling,
One more drink for the watery road.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#36. I think of what we might say. Him to me. Me to him. I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words. Be with me, Jack. That's what I'll say. Burn with me. Shine with me.
Moira Young
#37. The day is still bright, but fading, like it's tired of holding on to the sun and the birdsong and the green smells of the fields just outside of town.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#38. I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow.
Moira Weigel
#39. Anyways, settin so much store in one person ... it's dangerous.
Moira Young
#40. Ike! Jack yells, pointin at the villains at the table. Look! He's takin seconds!
Oh no, he ain't!
Moira Young
#41. We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't.
Moira Young
#42. Whatever's broke, he says, I can fix it. I'll fix it all. I promise.
Moira Young
#43. There's no point trying to work, Moira won't allow it, she's like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read. You
Margaret Atwood
#44. Oh, don't sit there blushin, he says, git on with it. Life's too short. Take her off in the bushes, my friend, an make her yer own. If you don't, somebody else will. Hell, I might jest make a play fer her myself. That 'ud put a rocket in yer pocket. Ha ha! How's about it, Red? You an me?
Moira Young
#45. It'll happen if it's meant to happen, he says. It's all written in the stars. It's all fate.
Moira Young
#46. He's seen enough to know that you can't kill all the badness in the world. You cut it down in front of you only to find that it's standing right behind you.
Moira Young
#47. Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
Margaret Atwood
#48. Do you know, I used to feel special, like I would wake up in a fairytale and be a great hero. But now ... I don't know if I want to be in a story anymore. It's like I am already, and I don't think I like it. And what would it mean if it were true? What would it mean for you?
Moira Katson
#49. Nick looks at Alice like she's the only person on the planet he can see in full color.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#50. I hold up the heartstone. It's burnin hot now. He's on th'other side. The sound of a heartbeat. In my head, all around me, everywhere. So loud.
Moira Young
#51. Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.
Moira Kelly
#52. I couldn't be sure, and I certainly wasn't going to admit it to anyone, but I suspect I was the cause of the blizzard that hit us that night.
Moira J. Moore
#53. Sometimes the strong give birth to the weak. An sometimes the weak grow to be strong
Moira Young
#54. Like what you see,Angel? he says.
You ain't my type
Moira Young
#55. Jack grins. Anyways, Saba likes to look at my bare chest.
Lugh looks at me. Frowns. Is that a fact? he says.
I feel myself go bright red. It is not a fact, I says. You stinker, Jack.
Moira Young
#56. How did you find me? The heartstone? he says.
I look into his eyes. His silver moonlight eyes. The still calmwater heart of him.
I don't need no stone to find you. I'd find you anywhere, I says.
Moira Young
#57. In the dark of those nights, I learned then that it was not enough for me to endure and wait. I must find a way out of this maze of misery.
Moira Katson
#58. I'm one hell of a public speaker, baby. I'm going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me like some damaged little victim, I will murder you. In your sleep.
Moira Rogers
#59. Andrew Callaghan, put that girl down before you hurt her. No one's going to touch her, but if you're not going to take care of her, you can't have her.
Moira Rogers
#60. No, I says, He stole it agin. He's a thief an a menace an I'm gonna trade him in fer a umberella.
Moira Young
#61. You are the light of my life and I believe in you.
David Gaider
#63. Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones ... gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.
Moira Young
#64. You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips ... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.
Moira Young
#65. You got no idea, do you? You got no idea how beautiful you are.
Moira Young
#66. They call me the Angel of Death.
That's because I ain't never lost a fight.
Moira Young
#67. Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you did with your brother. You have such strength, such courage, such power within you.
Moira Young
#68. We have a destiny, he says. Together, Saba. We're born to command, not obey.
Moira Young
#69. Nevertheless Moira was our fantasy. We hugged her to us, she was with us in secret, a giggle; she was lava beneath the crust of daily life. In
Margaret Atwood
#70. I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!
Moira Kelly
#71. Be careful, Angel, he says. When you stare at a man like that, he's likely to git any number of number of ... innerestin ideas.
Moira Young
#72. He looked to the sky for answers. I look at what's in front of me, what's around me, what's inside of me.
Moira Young
#73. It's always bin a bloody world, she says. Only nowadays, some people's blood is better than others.
Moira Young
#74. Since you couldn't be bothered to give me your name, I'll just tell Moira that an extra from the porno version of Something Wicked This Way Comes was looking for her.
Allison Pang
#75. I'm gonna hafta kiss you, Jack, I says.
I wish you would, he says.
Moira Young
#76. I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
Moira Kelly
#77. I never knew that missin somebody could hurt, I says. But it does. Deep inside. Like it's in my bones. We ain't never bin apart till now. Never. I dunno how to be without him. It's like ... I ain't nuthin.
Moira Young
#78. I push him off, sit up an start puttin my clothes to rights. He's made a heroic effort to undress me.
You work fast, I says.
Yer a moving target, I hafts. Here, he says, lemme help.
I button, he unbuttons. I tuck, he untucks.
I slap his hand. I'll do it myself, I says.
Moira Young
#80. He knows how Molly grieves. Once he's gone, she'll lock the place up. Then she'll cry some and drink some. And she'll do that, over and over again, until the skin over this latest wound has grown tough enough for her to carry on.
Moira Young
#81. My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.
Moira Kelly
#82. She's packed her topside fundamentals so tight into her low-cut dress that it's only a matter of time before she busts her banks.
Moira Young
#83. We ain't got time fer you to yell at me or fer me to tell you everythin that's happened, so I'm jest gonna cover the main points real quick an then I'm gonna kiss you, he says.
Moira Young
#84. The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.
Moira Rogers
#85. You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win."
"Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me.
"Aye, but it's not working."
"Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.
Moira J. Moore
#86. I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.
Moira Kelly
#87. I'm a fever in your blood now, Saba. As you are in mine.
Moira Young
#88. I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words.
Moira Young
#89. I most certainly can kill someone for putting his hands on you. I am my own man. Don't ever forget that, Moira.
Sawyer Bennett
#90. First of all - I only believe what I see.
Moira Kelly
#91. Don't think that way, Moira would say. Think that way and you'll make it happen.
Margaret Atwood
#92. Who am I?
What do I believe?
Never lose sight of what I believe in. Never, no matter what happens.
What one person does affects all of us.
We're all bound together. We're all threads in a single garment of destiny.
I make my destiny myself.
By the choices I make.
Moira Young
#93. You got three seconds, he says, then they're comin down. He starts to count. One ... two ...
I turn and run.
I can still hear him laughin when I'm halfways back to camp.
Moira Young
#94. Should I have Jackson bring Kat? Or is he going to pee on her leg or something crazy?"
I'm not going to pee on anyone." Andrew growled, and Mackenzie stepped aside and let him pass.
Moira Rogers
#95. There can be beauty anywhere. Even here. An if it ain't there, you can make it yerself.
Moira Young
#96. Nudity ... I have to say I will never do it again.
Moira Kelly
#97. When your life is not the primrose path, you still have to walk your road. You have to be a judge, pry right from wrong, figure out what ugly things the good can perch in, too.
Moira Crone
#98. Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but ... maybe the truth is, I didn't
I don't
much care one way or th'other.
Moira Young
#100. I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's-
More, like a person than a bird? I says.
Yeah, she says. That's it.
Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.
Moira Young
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