Eibhlin O’Connell

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena