A Man With One of Those Faces Quotes

“In the meantime, he was dotting the ‘I’s and crossing the ‘T’s, waiting for the S and the H to show up.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“If you want the honest-to-God truth, most people have a lot they want to say and not that much they want to hear.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Get off the cross, we need the wood.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“she wouldn’t be launching a thousand ships any time soon but she’d undoubtedly create a fair bit of interest in a chip shop queue.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“People say life is short, but it's not. It's long, so damn long – ye can't help but make a mess of it. ‘Tis like roulette. You sit at that table for an hour, you might just come away a winner. You sit there long enough, and the house always wins.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“Jesus may’ve died for your sins, but his ma was the one who was willing to listen to your excuses.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“it was very hard to enjoy the scenery while simultaneously being terrified of colliding with it.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“He cursed himself for wasting the few minutes he’d had before having to flee his home on sorting through DVDs, rather than doing practical stuff like putting on some more clothes. At times like this, it was hard for him to run from the suspicion that he might be an idiot.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Paul glanced across the road. The fox was now sniffing at the sandwich it had retrieved. Rather than eating it, it elected to urinate on it instead. As reviews went, it was pretty damning.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Good tip,” said Paul. “Just so I know, where is a good place to get shot?” He’d not yet realised that Dr Sinha was not at home to sarcasm. “Gluteus maximus – most definitely. Gunshot, stab wound – if you get the option, go ass every time.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“During 36 years of marriage, the long-suffering Mrs Stewart had convinced her workaholic husband to go abroad on holiday exactly twice. DI Jimmy Stewart didn’t like abroad. He didn’t like the sea, the sun or foreigners. Not in a racist way, they just insisted on having their own languages and he had a copper’s pathological dislike of things he didn’t understand. The second time they went abroad, they’d gone to Crete. He’d not liked it but he’d kept that largely to himself. The woman had given birth to and raised four kids, all of whom he loved and three of whom he liked. Once he’d given in, he’d decided it was only fair to let her enjoy the holiday and not be a moany prick about it.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Tall, blonde, skinny. Breasts that looked so impossibly pert, they reminded Paul of intensely interested meerkats.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Receptionists were the canaries down the coal mine of the modern office; there was nothing worth knowing that they wouldn’t know first.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?" "No, I've met them.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“His every facial attribute was a masterpiece of bloody-minded unoriginality, an aesthetic tribute to the forgettably average. Collectively they formed an orchestra designed to produce the facial muzak of the Gods.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Bollocks, Bunny. Get off the cross, we need the wood”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“the spotlight effect. Basically, we all believe other people are paying way more attention to us than they actually are.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“The sky was the colour of wet newspaper, and it seemed to be bleeding into the day, making everything look like a bad photocopy of itself.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“There are many many fine women drivers in the world but none of them… are in this car.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“It was surprising how long you could go around a modern medical facility without actually seeing blood. It was like the oil in a state-of-the-art car: you only saw it when something was really going wrong.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“you want the honest-to-God truth, most people have a lot they want to say and not that much they want to hear.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“You learn a lot about yourself in a crisis. Paul learned he could definitely bring himself to kick a cat.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Dublin did look great in the sunshine, although she supposed everywhere did. The temperature must have been nearly 30 degrees Celsius, nobody with Irish skin could stay out in it for more than ten minutes unprotected without risking spontaneous combustion.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“Ordinary people feel like they’ve been taken for a ride, like those in power are playing us all for mugs, and the choice at election time is the same again, or something even worse. Gerry: It’s a fair point. If this were France, there’d have been riots in the streets years ago. They don’t stand for stuff like this,”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“Officer Danaher appeared to be more intimidated by being spoken to by a member of the public in possession of breasts than he was her in-depth legal knowledge.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“Good tip,” said Paul. “Just so I know, where is a good place to get shot?” He’d not yet realised that Dr Sinha was not at home to sarcasm.
“Gluteus maximus – most definitely. Gunshot, stab wound – if you get the option, go ass every time.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“he's not exactly sunshine and lollipops”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“people have a lot they want to say and not that much they want to hear.”
― Caimh McDonnell, A Man With One of Those Faces

“If she was to plan this again – which by definition she wouldn't be – she would have taken geography into account more. In particular, she would have selected a virginity-removal partner who came from down the country, or better yet, abroad. That way, they would have their own student digs. Matt, like herself, came from Dublin and hence lived at home. This meant the only venue open to them had been his mother's car.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes

“Some people have very fluffy bullshit ideas about this kind of thing, Verity did not. She wasn't expecting earth movement and choirs of angels. The last thing she wanted to do was wait for someone special. She wanted to know exactly what she was doing when that someone showed up. She was a great believer in preparation. That being said, she was of course not willing to let just anyone assist with the removal of her virginity. She rejected utterly the concept of some man ‘taking it’ – it gave them far too much control in the situation. Come to that, she wasn't losing it – she was carefully disposing of it. Loss implied carelessness.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Day That Never Comes