Angels in the Moonlight Quotes

“It was like he’d just been issued with a human head for the first time and he was trying to figure out how it worked.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Money didn’t buy you an answer, just a nicer room in which to avoid the question.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Don’t mistake fireworks for fire.” That was what James had been. Bright colourful lights and explosions that generated no heat. Love at first sight wasn’t love at all; it was just biology. Fire was a different thing. It warmed you against the cold and illuminated your way on the darkest of nights.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.”“Sax-a-phobic, are we?”“Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Delaney had the personal hygiene standards of a mentally-challenged baboon. Every time Mulholland looked at him he had a finger somewhere new – in his ear, eye, nostril, mouth. It was like he’d just been issued with a human head for the first time and he was trying to figure out how it worked.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Tut tut tut, Rory. There is no cause for lazy homophobia like that. We’ve been on a course.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.” “Sax-a-phobic, are we?” “Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Speaking of which, isn’t there supposed to be some complimentary grub available?” The woman looked at the door behind the bar. “There’s food, but nobody has been complimentary about it.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Every time Mulholland looked at him he had a finger somewhere new – in his ear, eye, nostril, mouth. It was like he’d just been issued with a human head for the first time and he was trying to figure out how it worked.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“Honest to Christ, you have to get a license for a dog but we'll let anyone have a kid”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

“dresses of the Fifties, back in jazz’s golden era. A velvet dress –”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight