Dancing at Lughnasa Quotes

“Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dancing as if the very heart of life and all its hopes might be found in those assuaging notes and those hushed rhythms and in those silent and hypnotic movements. Dancing as if language no longer existed because words were no longer necessary...”
― Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa

“I love you, Aggie! I love you more than chocolate biscuits!”
― Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa

“And he wants to bring me up to the back hills next Sunday - up to Lough Anna. His father has a boat there. And I'm thinking maybe I'll bring a bottle of milk with me. And I've enough money saved to buy a packet of chocolate biscuits.”
― Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa

“I love you Aggie… more than chocolate biscuits.”
― Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa