The Tour Quotes

“The opportunity of a lifetime must be taken in the lifetime of that opportunity”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“Sometimes it’s not until you are out of a situation that you appreciate just how bad it was. It seems we have more in common than we first thought,”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. To my mind, people decide either they are going to have a great time or a miserable time, and there’s very little anyone can do to change it once they have decided on that. I hope you decide you are going to have a great time and that you don’t give a damn what anyone else thinks.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“The only difference between an Irish funeral and an Irish wedding is that there’s one less drunk.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“is hard, I think, for mothers – they want the best thing for their children, but also they want them to be close.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“She had possibly been good-looking fa few years ago, Ellen thought, but now she bore all the signs of a woman well and truly gone to seed.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“Not”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“Among the Dunshane staff, the young Ukrainian was the person he had struck up the closest friendship with. His chats with Anastasia revealed that she, like so many of her countrymen and women, had come to Ireland in search of a better life. Conor was surprised when she told him that she had, in fact, worked as a teacher in Kiev, but the money she made waitressing in Ireland was twice what she could earn at home. Two weeks earlier, in between departing and arriving tour groups, one of the receptionists had told him it was Anastasia’s birthday, so he had taken her out for a meal to cheer her up; she had seemed a bit lonely for home”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“Ellen fixed Anna with her clear blue eyes. ‘All any child needs is love. My father raised me on his own in a strange country where he had no support. It wasn’t easy, and I’m sure there were lonely times, but he loved me with all his heart. And I loved him. Neither of us regretted a second of it, and it will be just the same for you, my dear. Congratulations.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“The opportunity of a lifetime must be taken in the lifetime of that”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“Siobhán”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“heard”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“The opportunity of a lifetime must be taken in the lifetime of that opportunity.”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“When the last sad plaintiff notes rang out,”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“No,’ she smiled enigmatically, ‘not dreaming. Is all real.’ She leaned in on one elbow and looked directly into his eyes. ‘No regrets I hope?’ ‘Em now, let me see…I wake up to the sexiest communist on earth, who claims to love me, though for what reason I can’t imagine. The same communist is attending to my every need, and all it’s costing me is the rent of my shirt. I’d have to say now…in all fairness…eh…no regrets.’ He pulled her into his”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour

“booked before she knew what hit her. What”
― Jean Grainger, The Tour