Siobhan Dowd Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent. — Siobhan Dowd

Has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? — Siobhan Dowd

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy. — Siobhan Dowd

What goes up, must come down ... Mustn't it? — Siobhan Dowd

Salim,' She said, as if he were in the room. 'I'll have your guts for garters.' I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this. — Siobhan Dowd

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation. — Siobhan Dowd