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August 30 - September 2, 2024
she wouldn’t be launching a thousand ships any time soon but she’d undoubtedly create a fair bit of interest in a chip shop queue.
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.
Right then, he didn’t want to feel anything about that. He hadn’t spent nearly enough time feeling sorry for himself, and now he was expected to move onto dealing with that piece of information.
He’d never used that phrase before in his life and, even as it came out of his mouth, the little internal editor in the back of his brain looked up from his newspaper and sneered.
“Feck – Leitrim, God forsaken shithole that it is. Hasn’t produced a decent hurler in a decade. I’m not surprised you left, love. If all the men from there have the same aim as the hurling team, you’d have been ear-fucked to death by now.”
The woman had given birth to and raised four kids, all of whom he loved and three of whom he liked. Once
Stewart disliked unusual. Before you knew it, unusual became awkward, and then it was just a hop, skip and a dodgy chain of evidence to awkward becoming complicated.
He didn’t cry any more but not in the good way. It didn’t feel like healing. It felt like dying.
The Six O’Clock News would cover an international symposium on tortoise haemorrhoids if you could show an Irish person banging a gavel in a big conference hall.
attractive in that way that said, ‘this took an awful long time, I hope you appreciate it.’
Basically, we all believe other people are paying way more attention to us than they actually are.
we had him tested. See if they could figure out why he was so… y’know. These days, he’d probably be ADHD or ADD or whatever else they call it. Back then, they couldn’t get past thick.”
In my experience, you cannot beat a lesbian in a crisis.” “Probably because they’re never tempted to do stupid stuff to impress men,” said Brigit.
