Sandy Taylor > Quotes

“None of us knew that we were poor, so we didn’t feel hard done by, we had nothing and yet we took pleasure in the smallest of things.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“Love isn’t about owning someone, love is about guiding them to a place where they can discover who they are, not who you want them to be.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Nanny

“Mammy once said that you don’t get over someone you have lost, you learn to live with it, for if your love was true, then they deserved your grief.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Nanny

“The trouble with kindness is that it can be taken advantage of.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Orphan's Daughter

“Maybe that was what love was all about – maybe loving one person didn’t diminish your love for another, with or without the sun in your eyes.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Orphan's Daughter

“Maybe home wasn’t a place, maybe home was a person.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Orphan's Daughter

“Where are the people? Resumed the little prince at last. It’s a little lonely in the desert. It is lonely when you’re among people too,’ said the snake.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“Sometimes what you want isn’t the most important thing in the world.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl

“That gobshite of a man would peel an orange in his pocket for fear he’d have to share it.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“I turned my back on the sea and looked instead on my beautiful Blackwater River. This river had always brought me peace. There was something calming in the way it moved, gently and smoothly, as if it had nothing to prove and being itself was enough. The sea was different; it seemed always to be in a hurry, rushing towards some destination. Changing, always changing, never stopping long enough to enjoy the shore that it was rushing towards, never staying long enough to notice the beauty of the smooth pebbles that it dragged back into the ocean.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Nanny

“If success was judged by the people I loved and who loved me, then my life had indeed been a success.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“We have a history, you and I, that I will never have with anyone else. A king once said, “Bring me my old slippers, for they know my feet better than the”
― Sandy Taylor, The Orphan's Daughter

“allowed him to be Jack’s friend. I found that really odd, given how stuck-up she was. ‘I never thanked you properly for looking”
― Sandy Taylor, When We Danced at the End of the Pier

“wanted to take this day and put it in a box, so that if I ever felt lonely or scared, I could look inside and see it again and feel the way I felt today and I could remember. I looked around the room at all the people I loved and I thought that I was the luckiest girl in the whole world.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl

“The night before he died, he’d taken”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“It isn’t just blood that makes a family, Nora – it’s being there for that person, it’s wanting the best for them, it’s caring more for them than you care for yourself.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Orphan's Daughter

“A lot of our gods are shown with many arms. Lakshmi’s arms depict the four important goals of life: morality, love, humanity and self-knowledge. Good things to aim for in our lives. We try but we are human and we don’t always succeed.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Boarding House

“looked like spun gold. Yes, Jack was beautiful. I lay there looking up at the sky and I remembered our special night. I suppose I should have been scared after all the advice I’d been given but something told me that I had nothing to be scared about. There were no surprises, no fumbling. I knew Jack’s body like I knew my own. I’d watched him grow from the boy into the man. I knew the soft places and the hard places, the curve of his spine, the pale downy hair on his arms and legs that caught”
― Sandy Taylor, When We Danced at the End of the Pier

“Moira”
― Sandy Taylor, Return to the Irish Boarding House

“weeping”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl

“But it’s not the way I imagined it.’ ‘Life rarely is. The only happy endings one can truly rely on are in books.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Runaway Children

“But don’t you think that moments like this are just too beautiful to last?”
― Sandy Taylor, The Irish Nanny

“room”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl

“maybe I was learning the true meaning of love. Maybe it wasn’t about secret meetings and poetry books, maybe it was about loyalty and being there through the good times and the bad, and maybe it was about caring for someone more than you cared for yourself.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl

“I hadn’t thought about what he might have wanted. I had a lot of growing up to do. Sometimes what you want isn’t the most important thing in the world.”
― Sandy Taylor, The Little Orphan Girl