Quotes About Eilis

#1. If you don't make mistakes, they'll notice you and they'll get to like you,' she added. Eilis

Colm Toibin

#2. Eilis was fascinated by [ ... ] his sweet duplicity in giving no sign of what had happened before. She was almost glad to know that he had secrets and had ways of calmly keeping them.

Colm Toibin

#3. What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.

Colm Toibin

#4. Eilis replied to say that it was not just Mrs Kehoe, who was not in any way extravagant, it was everyone in America, they all kept their heating on all night. As

Colm Toibin

#5. If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

J. P. Morgan

#6. I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.

Eilis O'Neal

#7. I try not to look like a university man here ... My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life of the bourgeoisie. A sign, moreover, that a man has to earn his own living.

Eilis Dillon

#8. Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

Eilis O'Neal

#9. They say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior.

David Clement-Davies

#10. So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly.
"Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.

Eilis O'Neal

#11. This was what I had now. Just this.
I had to make it enough.

Eilis O'Neal

#12. May be my favorite of my Cuba dispatches ...

Jeff Greenwald

#13. There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

Eilis O'Neal

#14. Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might have been expressly designed for persons who need a quiet spell for the commission of crime.

Eilis Dillon

#15. He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear.

Colm Toibin

#16. Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Roger L'Estrange

#17. We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.

Eilis Flynn

#18. Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.

Eilis O'Neal

#19. Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance.

Kim John Payne

#20. If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw it to the ground, and danced on its grave.

Eilis O'Neal

#21. What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.

Eilis Dillon

#22. How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

Eilis O'Neal

#23. Please " I whispered. "Please come back."
There was no one there to hear me.

Eilis O'Neal

#24. He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers been brave enough to mention it?

Eilis O'Neal