The Thing About December Quotes

“People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were never there.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“Even so, a lie in print looks truer than the truth sounds from the mouth of a fool.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“The sun had something in it that cheered you up.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“Daddy always said that that man did what he did out of avarice, and Johnsey believed that then, because when Daddy said a thing it was invariably true. But now, Johnsey was not so sure. Maybe he did it to have somewhere warm to sit of an evening, with someone familiar to look at and be silent beside in comfort. Maybe he knew that was worth more than a farm of land or a big pile of second-hand money, covered in the dirty prints of other men's hands.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse.”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December

“The Englishman's story seemed unlikely; there had to be a God. Who would have made everything otherwise?”
― Donal Ryan, The Thing About December