Years As Gaeilge Quotes & Sayings

A great fortune enslaves its owner. — Publilius Syrus

true church, whilst the authorities appeared ever more indulgent to the unChristian pastimes — Tristram Hunt

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed. — Gore Vidal

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent. — Norman Mailer

Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet? — Cassandra Clare

We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things ... . To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth. — George MacDonald

Fuck them," says Susan Falls. This is the first time, in her entire life, that she has employed an extra-cerebral profanity. Though in fantasy she has often used swear words, she has never spoken one. It feels good, and it occurs to Susan that, as stupid as most people sound when they use profanities, as stupid as she must have sounded just now, the feeling of power that just rushed through her, from inner labia to thyroglossal duct, the trace sensations leftover from just now, just now when she said the word fuck, make sounding stupid more than worthwhile.
"Fuck them, then," Carla Ribisi agrees, and it is the hottest motherfucking thing Susan has ever heard. — Adam Levin

You were thinking you had a chance to do what you always do," said James with kindness I didn't deserve. "You were going to give yourself up in order to save the people you love. It's a bit of a problem with you, you know. — Aimee Carter

It wasn't like I came to Sri Lanka to marry a Sri Lankan. It just happened." Jessica — Angela Nicoara

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in. — Vinnie Jones

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. — Neel Mukherjee

Divide your time into time periods — Sunday Adelaja