“Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that hmm? I felt like laughing in his face: How can your solitary finish? That's the best laugh yet.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“I don`t know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“I wanted to stop talking about the whole thing. I wanted to talk about the hide and the old days and hacking at the ice and whose turn it was to toss the marble and all that, that was what I wanted to talk about. They were the best days, you could see through them days, as clear as polished glass. But Joe didn't want to.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“All of a sudden I looked at him with his rosy cheeks and the two silver snots at his nose and what did I want to do I wanted to kiss him. Not the way Tiddly did it any of that but just because all of a sudden everything seemed so good. I said to myself: Just being here is so good I could stand here for ever.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“Ah I see, says Father Dom with his two thumbs like dwarfs doing an old-time waltz in and out of his little black buttons.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over the other one until one day you looked and the person you knew was gone. And instead there was a half-ghost sitting there who had only one thing to say: All the beautiful things of this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
Born place: in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland
Born date March 27, 1955
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“There are some things about oneself that it’s not very nice to wake up to.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Requiem for a Wren
“It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.”
― Kenneth Oppel, quote from Starclimber
“Prolaze ljudi i nose u svojim mračnim crijevima skuhane kokošje glave žalosne ptičje oči kravlje butove konjska stegna a sinoć još su te životinje veselo mahale repom i kokoši kvocale su u predvečerje svoje smrti u kokošinjcima a sada se sve svršilo u ljudskim crijevima i to se micanje i žderanje u jednu riječ zove život po zapadnim evropskim gradovima u sutonu jedne stare civilizacije.”
― Miroslav Krleža, quote from The Return of Philip Latinowicz
“a sermon was meant to be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to keep one interested!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
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