Diane Anest

“All you’re doing is fearing the different. Remember this – some day, you might meet the right woman or piss off the wrong man, and you’ll find yourself somewhere else in the world, and you’ll be the different. Remember how you treated these people now, because that’ll be how you or your kids or your kid’s kids will be treated. It’s a small world, and what goes around comes around.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2

“Gosh, you could spend two million in a day, if you put your mind to it,” Julia had said. She was right, of course. Inheriting his two million had been like winning the lottery (“ Trailer-trash money,” Julia called it). Real money was old money, the kind of money that you could never get through no matter how hard you tried. It was passed down from generation to generation and hoarded. It came from enclosing your peasants’ fields, from getting in on the ground floor of the Industrial Revolution, and from buying slaves to cut down your sugarcane. The people with real money ran everything.”
― Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn

“One determined woman could be worth ten men with guns if the world would just let her get on with it.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2

“People, on the other hand, hurt those they said they loved, found offence in the innocuous and when they got what they wanted, never seemed that happy. Actually, they seemed very happy initially and then inevitably that happiness degraded. If”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2