Michael Magee > Quotes

“There’s only so much partying you can do, and when there are fewer and fewer people to party with, it starts to feel like there’s nowhere else to go. You’re stuck in this hole with the same three or four faces for the rest of your life, drinking, taking gear, hanging around the local until there’s no one left to talk to.”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home

“Because if you’re talking about one person’s ma or da and the troubles they carry around with them, you’re talking about all of them, including, in most cases, your own, and the only thing worse than seeing someone’s da standing round the corner from the off-licence trying to get someone to go in for him because he’s barred, or someone’s ma climbing into the back seat of a souped-up Supra at three o’clock in the afternoon only to reappear a few hours later, barely able to stand, is to acknowledge it for what it is and not as something you catch out of the corner of your eye every once in a while and pretend to ignore.”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home

“ecauseif you’re talking about one person’s ma or da and the troubles they carryaround with them, you’re talking about all of them, including, in most cases,
your own, and the only thing worse than seeing someone’s da standing round the corner from the off-licence trying to get someone to go in for him because he’s barred, or someone’s ma climbing into the back seat of a souped-upnSupra at three o’clock in the afternoon only to reappear a few hours later, barely able to stand, is to acknowledge it for what it is and not as something you catch out of the corner of your eye every once in a while and pretend to ignore.”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home

“We’re going to hear some poems, he told them, and he wasn’t ashamed to say it. In fact, it was as if going to a poetry reading was a completely normal thing to do,”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home

“A group of people who were into the things I was into, who went to events and knew how that world worked. Turns out, no. That wasn’t going to happen. The doors into those worlds were bolted shut.”
― Michael Magee