The Irish Goodbye Quotes

“We don’t see things as they are,’” she said. “‘We see them as we are.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye

“Wanting that and living that are two different things.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye

“an Irish goodbye is when you leave without saying goodbye.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye

“She was a master at not knowing what she knew.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye

“Alice had recited the prayer thousands of times, but words that had once comforted her now seemed suspect, useless. Another way life would be divided into before and after.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye

“Inside the house, Cait breathed in the familiar combination of piney turpentine from her mother’s painting studio and the lingering hint of tobacco from her grandfather’s pipe that had defined her childhood.”
― Heather Aimee O'Neill, The Irish Goodbye