Liz Nugent > Quotes

“In the outside world, you will find more people who are kind than people who are not. Seek them out.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers and sisters.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr”
― Liz Nugent, Our Little Cruelties

“You don’t have to love a person. You can love the idea of a person. You can idealize them and turn them into the person you need.”
― Liz Nugent, Unravelling Oliver

“If Santa Claus doesn’t exist, does God, or the devil?” Mum looked to Dad and he said, “Nobody knows.” I found that concept difficult. If they knew for a fact that Santa Claus didn’t exist, why didn’t they know for sure about God?”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“Truth can cause more pain than lies, I think. Some secrets are best left as secrets.”
― Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver

“I understood what shame meant. It was one of the emotions I was in touch with.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“How’r’ye, son. I’m Detective Sergeant Declan O’Toole, and that there’ –he nodded towards the back seat –‘is Detective James Mooney. Do you live in there?’ He pointed towards our house.”
― Liz Nugent, Lying in Wait

“You don’t have to love a person. You can love the idea of a person. You can idealize them and turn them into the person you need. Alice loved the person that she thought I was. One way or another, I have managed to kill all the people who have loved me so far.”
― Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver

“She has two children, so she probably likes sex.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“People who go through life smiling miss out on the dignity of sorrow”
― Liz Nugent, Skin Deep

“Diddums. Critics claim that somebody who had no children could”
― Liz Nugent, Unravelling Oliver

“I’m forty-four and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“All is fair in love and war, isn’t it? Of course not. That is the biggest and most pernicious lie ever. How ridiculous. Nothing is fair in love and life, and I have wasted far too much of my time wishing it were not so.”
― Liz Nugent, Unravelling Oliver

“And that old teddy bear that randomly arrived in the mail a couple of years back.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“You kidnapped her. You took her from her family and imprisoned her in that room next door to mine. You starved her and beat her and punished her, and you raped her. You’re beating and raping Lindy, knocking her teeth out. Do you do it with extraction forceps or pliers?”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“But, Tina, I did imagine having sex with Harrison Ford, quite a lot.” She smiled. “I think we’ve all done that. Sally,”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“I watched my friend drown.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“They’ll be raging if I go off with two strange fellas without telling them.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“Apparently, I have been harbouring bitterness, resentment and frustration since my childhood. Now, there’s a surprise. What will the neighbours think? What will anybody think? I really couldn’t care less.”
― Liz Nugent, Unravelling Oliver

“If they knew for a fact that Santa Claus didn’t exist, why didn’t they know for sure about God?”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“I asked him what the difference between a son and a godson was, and he said a godson was a child who believed in God. And I certainly did.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“Sally, he’s your uncle.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“Her solicitor had contacted me to say that Margaret Geary had willed her house to me.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“I'm forty-four and I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“I didn’t stay to hear it burn. He was no longer he; it was a body, an “it,” in a domestic incinerator beside a barn in a field beside a house at the end of a lane, off a minor road.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“My daughter, Amanda Heron, was out there, looking for answers. I googled her and found a glut of information. Young people have no idea how available their data is.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“person on the planet. Your oddities are not disabilities (although we call them disabilities to get your welfare allowance), they are mere quirks of your personality. You don’t like talking on the phone and I don’t like cauliflower. Are we so different?”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“Kad ir kiek stengtumeisi, skausmingiausi tavo gyvenimo tarpsniai iš atminties neišdyla. Širdgėla nepranyksta. Laikas negydo. Tai melas. Prie skausmo tiesiog pripranti. Daugiau nieko.”
― Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver

“I cried again on the journey home. I tried the breathing exercises, I tried putting myself in Aunt Christine’s shoes, in Angela’s shoes, but my rational self asked why they couldn’t put themselves in my shoes. Was anger never justified?”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“You don’t understand a lot of things, Sally, and this is one of them.’ ‘I understand racism.’ ‘Stop calling me a racist.’ ‘Stop being one.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond