Brian Malloy > Quotes

“The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she looks like Ronald McDonald's post-menopausal sister. Who has let herself go.”
― Brian Malloy, Twelve Long Months

“You won't further the cause of human rights by walking away with your morals intact. Change is about getting your hand dirty.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It’s like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they’re better guarded.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“Tis a child that dreams there’s something better ’round the corner. It’s a grown man who knows it’s right there in front of him.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“That's the thing with the dead, they get to say nothing, forever.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“But there’s this thing in her voice, like what my mom called “doublespeak.” Saying one thing and meaning another. Aunt Nora told me it was leftover from English rule. She said, “That’s the only good thing to ever come of colonialism, Kevin. The Irish can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“She was a real quiet woman. But maybe we just weren't listening.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these oversized checks they had us pose with. The picture made the front page of the Le Sueur News Herald.
It was really embarrassing because I'm smiling with my eyes shut.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Russ made a huge copy of the photo, replacing the background with a highway scene and the check I was holding with a sign that said NEED RIDE TO STAR TREK CONVENTION.”
― Brian Malloy, Twelve Long Months

“Jon’s brought a couple of bottles of Phillips peppermint schnapps to Van Cleve Park. The label says Enjoy in Moderation. Not much chance of that in this crowd.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“If you let the Anita Bryants of the world have their way, we’ll all be ruled by a theocracy.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“All it takes to make a new person is one night with some skank you hardly know. I mean, there I am, screwing her, and now there’s somebody like you or me on the way. It’s so fucking bizarre. You screw up one time and nine months later, bam! A new person.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“I wanna fuck all the time, I've never wanted a baby.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice

“Mom always used to say that stupid people have more nerve than brains.”
― Brian Malloy, The Year of Ice