Andrew M. Greeley > Quotes

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”
― Andrew Greeley

“He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, The Magic Cup

“The only real Jesus is one who is larger tahn life, who escapes our categories, who eludes our attempts to reduce Him to manageable proportions so that we can claim him for our cause.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Intro to "The Robe"

“An impish gleam flickered across the lakes of her eyes.
"Do I cause pleasure in the eyes of my master?" She asked sarcastically, twirling the red leine before him.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, The Magic Cup

“So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

“Well now, look at this, they keep winter in a box. That’s clever,” she congratulated me. Then she shut the fridge door...”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

“It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.”
― Andrew M Greeley

“...I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever.”
― Andrew M. Greeley

“His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke her thighs: he wanted to sing songs for her, dance dances for her, write poems for her.”
― Andrew M. Greeley

“It’s about corporate America, the rich and the super rich are taking money from the poor and the middle class and giving it, with the help of the Republican party, to the rich, to CEOs who earn a hundred and forty million dollars after they’re forced out of a company when it’s losing money. It’s about defending pensions from corporate bankruptcy tricks and your private property from eminent domain to put up Wal-Marts. It’s about immigration reform which puts an end to the senseless death of the poor but ambitious in the deserts of the southwest, it’s about recognizing the importance of the contribution of Mexican Americans to our national culture.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, The Senator and the Priest

“Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Whiskey

“The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Whiskey

“and spaghetti”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Second Spring

“Every parent is astonished when their child becomes, quite suddenly, a young person. Only yesterday … Why didn’t we notice what was happening when it was happening? Why had we been too busy to enjoy her progress towards the cusp of maturity?”
― Andrew M. Greeley, The Senator and the Priest

“Too late for that now,” the Eldest Leprechaun said. “The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape. They gave a name and a shape to the force that’s always hated us. It’s everything we’re not. It’s New Ireland, it’s money for money’s sake, brown paper envelopes stuffed full of bribes—the turn of mind that says that the old’s only good for theme parks, and the new is all there needs to be. It’s been getting stronger and stronger all this while.And now that it’s more important to the people living in the city than we are, it’s become physically real.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy