Ciara Smyth > Quotes

“History is who we are,” I say finally. “The past shapes us. Even the parts you can’t remember.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“See, the thing about the falling in love montage," she said, her voice hoarse, "is that when it's over, the characters have fallen in love.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“That was one of the hardest things about breaking up. It's not a pair of bookends, the beginning and the end... It's all the things we used to do that we'd never do again and all the things we'd never do for the first time together.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Just because something doesn't last forever doesn't mean it isn't meaningful”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“How about life's too short to be second-guessing yourself the whole way? You can only go with what you feel right now and if you feel like it might make you happy, even for a while, jump in with both feet, girl, and get wet.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I don’t believe there’s one right person for everyone, and I spent fifty-one years with the same woman. But I do believe there’s a right person for you at different times in your life. Whether that relationship lasts a week or fifty years is not what makes it special.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Things felt more messy than ever. Could someone treat you badly and still love you? Someone could treat you badly and you still love them, so maybe the reverse was true too. But just because you loved someone it didn't mean you had to give them another chance. Or maybe that's exactly what it meant.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Was this what being straight was like? A boy in your bedroom making a mess? Not for the first time, I thanked God I was a lesbian.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I made a mental note that if I ever wanted to try some therapeutic screaming, the acoustics in here were great.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Cos I fancy you. I'm hoping that if I go to all this effort you'll look at me and think, 'Well, she might be a dumbass, but she tries'. And then, I dunno, maybe you'll flash me or something.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“If I'm going to murder people I'm going to do it in style. I'm not going to half-arse it. It's not Maths homework. It's a passion project.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Please, God, don't be out of battery, you piece of shit, please, God."
One of the lesser-known prayers. You heard it around, sure, but only if you stuck it out to the end of the rosary.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Don't spit in my hair!"
"Don't get hair in my spit. That's my good saliva.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“If you truly love someone, if they were ever important to you, it doesn't disappear. What it looks like might change, but that's only the surface”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“If you accept that there's a problem, then you have to do something about it.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Why are you doing this,' she asked.
'You know why.' I said.
'Because you like to help people?'
'Nah.'
'Because you believe in my platform?"
'God no,' I joked.
She smirked. 'Why then.'
'Cause I fancy you. I'm hoping if I go to all this effort you'll look at me and think, well, she might be a dumbass but she tries. And then, I dunno, maybe you'll flash me or something.'
She laughed out loud at that. 'That is not why.'
'It is,' I said earnestly. 'I think you'll flash me.'
'You do not.'
'I do.'
'You don't.'
'I really do.'
'You-'
I cut her off with a kiss. I didn't think about it. I just leaned in and held the back of her head gently.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“I wanted to tell her how much I liked her, how I felt this tugging feeling in my stomach that drew me close to her, but I couldn’t let the words out of my mouth because it felt like unleashing something I couldn’t control.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Please excuse Aideen Cleary from PE today She has bubonic plauge."
I coughed.
"You do not have bubonic plauge."
"I do though.'
"I could phone your mother."
"You could.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“I like having something that can't ever change. It's already happened.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“This is what you get for being a Good Samaritan. You die in a girls' locker room at the hands of a deranged overachiever.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Maybe that’s what a relationship means, carrying a part of someone around for the rest of your life.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Look," I said in my softest voice. "you got your heart pulped. You missed someone and then you wanted to feel like they loved you again. that's not pathetic. It's your heart, it's soft and mushy and it's supposed to be and I'm sorry he thought it was okay to mess with it but that's his mistake, not yours.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Have you met my wife, Kristen Stewart? We're flying on a private jet to Maui tonight to have lots of sex and lip biting. Fuckity bye, arseholes.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“I forgot what it was like to be kissed by someone who might want more than a kiss. I knew then that Ruby was definitely not experimenting. I should have been scared. I should have left the room. I should never have gone upstairs with a girl who made me wobble.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Nothing good starts with I hope you'll be happy for me. The phrase is loaded with the unsaid ending because you won't be happy for yourself.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Whatever Just do something productive. You haven't done your last two English assignments and you have one due Friday. I told you next time it's detention."
"Wow, gossiping about me withe the English teacher. I would have thought you were above that kind of thing."
Ms. Devlin turned red, ready to explode. "I am your English teacher, you ninny."
"Oh I thought you looked familiar.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“Love didn't just disappear did it? Mine didn't. It wasn't some light I could switch on and off. It was something that had grown inside me, its roots tangled around all the organs of my body.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“She flipped her hair over to the opposite side. My stomach flipped over to its opposite side.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“I'm just. A girl. Standing in front. Of another girl, asking her. To please accept. This grand. Gesture. As an apology for being an absolute gobshite.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage