Dancing to an Irish Reel Quotes

“When I first met my wife, who is no longer with us; God bless her and a fine one she, I didn’t have the words to tell her anything, no, nothing at all,” he shook his head with a nostalgic smile. “We’re not one for spilling the soul around here, and you’d be best not looking for it,” he said.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“Well, Ireland is an old culture,” he explained, “and old cultures are subtle cultures. We’re like most of Europe that way. There is a great respect for language that I don’t think you have in America. We’re colorful in our language, all right. You know, I was a language teacher at the boy’s school across the road for many years.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“I found it interesting that fate had provided the chance encounter. It seemed to me that if we, in our human frailty, didn’t have the courage to take care of business, then the powers that be intervened seemingly by chance.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“From my American vantage point, there seemed to be a subtle dance the Irish employ around any charged topic even when they’re trying to say something specific. It’s as if the higher the stakes, the vaguer they become.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“Irish men are afraid of being in love because they lose control. The women in this country trap them with babies at an early age, and then it is all over for them. They think it is better not to love. They think there is no risk if they push the love away.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“There's a period of uncertainty that comes into play upon meeting someone who interests you. It must be inherent in attraction, for I’ve never met anybody who hasn’t experienced it, it’s just a question of to what degree they’re going to admit it.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel

“There’s an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd.”
― Claire Fullerton, Dancing to an Irish Reel