Peadar O'donnell Quotes & Sayings

She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals. — Peadar O'Guilin

They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness. — Peadar O'Guilin

The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings. — Peadar O'Guilin

I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt. — Peadar O'Guilin

His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject. — Peadar O'Guilin

The redhead shrugs. She doesn't care. And neither should Nessa. Not if she wants to live. — Peadar O'Guilin

There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings. — Peadar O'Guilin

At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves. — Peadar O'Guilin

Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species. — Peadar O'Guilin

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing. — Peadar O'Guilin

She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away. — Peadar O'Guilin

She says, "I'm going to live. And nobody's going to stop me." She believes every word of it. — Peadar O'Guilin