Donal O'Callaghan > Donal's Quotes

“But I had become a different person. One who looked at things in a new way. I appreciated life a whole lot more than I had last year.”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“I found that life has to be edited to continue.”
― Tracey Emin, The Art of Tracey Emin

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.”
― Portia de Rossi

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
― Edna O'Brien

“My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake)”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it. And vice versa.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself”
― Nick Hornby, Songbook

“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― Johnny Depp

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Sometimes one forgets that not everyone in this world is a bastard.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
― Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
― Johnny Depp

“The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven