The Quaker Quotes

“The family came next, glooming out of the gorgeous black car like moping royals, like a dynasty heading into exile.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“The words of the Hail Mary started up in his head, repeating on a loop like piped Muzak while his mind drifted off to other things—”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“dapper bandleader called Harry Margolis”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“He could picture Billy McNeill hoisting it in triumph, last year – no, the year before – at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“head in the direction of Pollokshaws Road; a few of them were meeting for a pint in Heraghty’s Bar.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“The Oban lot were Rangers fans and the Balla boys were Celtic. Time to go.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“They’d given Kilgour a mate, put him in with a fairy they’d lifted on Kelvin Way. Cold white tiles. A shitter with no seat.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker

“Like everything else in Balla, they were made of slate. The men worked them during slack times at the quarry. That’s what you did when you found a free half-hour: you worked your own headstone, cutting the cross or the crown at the top, and then carving your name and birthdate under ‘Sacred to the Memory of’ and a bas-relief opened book, leaving only the final date to be carved by another hand.”
― Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker