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Caimh McDonnell
“She’d heard that story about employees in a chocolate factory being allowed to eat as much as they liked in the first month, but it had never made much sense to her. The theory was they would soon get sick of chocolate. That had not been her experience with food. She would have been dead within a fortnight, being rolled out by Oompa Loompas singing a valuable lesson.”
Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 2

Caimh McDonnell
“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

Caimh McDonnell
“People, thought Noreen. People really were the problem. If people were a bit easier to deal with, she’d probably have become a doctor like her father and his father before him, instead of being the unspoken family disappointment of a veterinarian. She really had tried to like people, but it was very hard to based on the available evidence – war, famine and the films of Adam Sandler. Animals, on the other hand, were infinitely more lovable. In fact, their only downside was that they were invariably owned by people. It was the Peter principle on a massive evolutionary scale. Humanity had been promoted to the position of dominant species, a role they managed with utter incompetency.”
Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 1

Caimh McDonnell
“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

Caimh McDonnell
“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

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