A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6)

by Caimh McDonnell

If you want the honest-to-God truth, most people have a lot they want to say and not that much they want to hear. ”

Jesus may’ve died for your sins, but his ma was the one who was willing to listen to your excuses.

Paul said nothing, in a way that left nothing unsaid.

Marriage, thought Stewart, was all about compromise. Compromise and lying. The right kind of lying.

You don’t need to know who somebody is to know who they are.

this album captures a moment. It’s four guys doing what they can to make what they are really mean something. I guess, I dunno – I just like the idea of that.

I was stuck. The world was off-limits and it felt like life was leaving me behind. I figured maybe I should try wanting what everybody else wants, d’ye know what I mean?”

“I spend my days mostly surrounded by people who are, to put it in terms you’d understand, waiting for the very last train to Clarksville. Do you know what I’ve never heard any of them say ever? ‘It’s complicated.’ That’s because, when you look back at it, it almost never is. Nuclear physics is complicated. The middle east is complicated. Our lives? They’re actually pretty damn simple, we just somehow make them difficult for ourselves.

it wasn’t that she spoke without thinking, it was that she thought about it and then always said it anyway.