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She looked as if she had been either crying or fighting; with an Irish girl you can’t tell.
I don’t really know what this means.
“Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
“Must be nice to be a seagull. You eat, you sleep, you shag, and if you’re having a bad day you can shite on everyone from a great height. Doesn’t even have to be a bad day, you can do it just for fun.”
― Birthdays for the Dead
― Birthdays for the Dead
“You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.”
― The Careful Use of Compliments
― The Careful Use of Compliments
“The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
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