Daisy O'Shea > Quotes

“Perhaps not looking for love is the best way to discover it.”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Child

“life has a way of modifying our decisions”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Key

“This is luxury, if the truth be known. My ancient and basic farmhouse still doesn’t have a bathroom at all. But times are changing. Even my own brother won’t stay at the old home for want of his own comfort. My mother would have said I’m getting ideas above my station, that staying overnight in Noel’s renovated mansion, and now a hotel, will be the ruin of me. It’s only now that it occurs to me that my mother had truly accepted the church’s teachings, that we were poor by the grace of God. Actually, I think, looking around at this evidence of a once-privileged family’s home, it was the rich who promoted that concept, not God. After all, if everyone had aspirations of grandeur, how would they remain superior, and who would do all the work?”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Daughter

“He has a very calming presence, a rock of reliability in my turbulent mental state.”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Key

“MacDarragh’s Honey, Roone Bay.”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Key

“forget what had gone”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Family Secret

“The people she had thought of as friends have faded to strangers who air their follies on Facebook. It’s only from a distance that she’s able to see how directionless that life was, how shallow. The realisation that there had been no two-way communication was sobering; everyone shouting about what they were doing, no one listening, just clicking like to confirm their own presence. Like a voyeur, she watches their lives spinning on without her, as they fall from one party to the next, always seeking, never finding.”
― Daisy O'Shea, Legend of the Selkie

“Inheritance is a privilege, not a right.”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Key

“But life hands out some strange chances, and we don’t always make the best of choices.”
― Daisy O'Shea, The Irish Key