Eithne Shortall > Quotes

“What I’m saying is that whoever the people are, you can build your own family. Getting to be on your team should be an honour, not an entitlement.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“Turns out he was on to something. Agreeing with someone who’s trying to get a rise out of you is very enjoyable.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“I was working with some of the country’s most vulnerable people on a daily basis – people entirely forgotten by the state and society – and despite all my professional knowledge of how mental illness works, I still couldn’t help thinking: ‘What does my daughter have to be depressed about?”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“I’ve never felt so inconsequential in the universe’s grand plan, and I have to say it’s very comforting.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“We can be born into families or we can build them. Being in your life at the start isn’t an entitlement to be in it forever. You decide who gets to be in your family, not a birth cert.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“Stability is the greatest gift we can give our children;”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“qualify and you’re paid well, and you get used to being paid well… It’s a hard cycle to break”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“It’s not easy being friends with a carer. I say no to things far more often than yes, and I frequently cancel plans at the last minute. Even if I do make it out, I rarely have anything interesting to say.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers

“My problems seem so insignificant when faced with the unending expanse of the calm, glistening sea. I am humbled by the water, I am calmed by it, I am— ‘Oh no.’ I am off the road.”
― Eithne Shortall, The Lodgers