Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking Quotes

“It is astonishing, in the end, how difficult it is to know the things you know. What I mean is that all I had discovered was everything I knew all along.”
― Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

“The whole world seemed full of hurt feelings and apologies, endless selfishness and explanations. Wasn't there anything that anyone could understand about each other? Weren't there some hurt feelings that mattered more? Or did it all matter just as much, interminably, wound after wound?”
― Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

“Among other things, I've taken up smoking. Ana says I should stop with the good girl/bad girl stuff, and obviously she's right, but sometimes when I have a cigarette in my hand and the streets are dangerously empty and I've had a few drinks after my shift and I am noticing the lights that are on in different apartments, lighting stairways and whole buildings, blinking red on the skyline, I think about the nights on the island when I was content to stand alone outside the house, listening to the god horns in that soft blackness, and tasting the air, sweet with salt.”
― Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

“If the gods had left us behind then maybe we had left them too - whatever we had, I thought, was not for them to touch.”
― Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

“I sort of rushed at him, and kissed the skin of his bare neck, pressed my face into his shoulder. All along I had been imagining him here, making himself dinner, writing at his desk, and here he was, just as I thought. He put his arms around me and held me tight, and I thought how very much I loved him, how maybe I had never loved him so much.”
― Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking