Moments of Glad Grace Quotes

“We will never do anything like this again. I may never have the privilege of spending so much carefree time with my dad as I have just now, scurrying around Dublin, father and daughter on a lark. And it is so obvious, yet just as easily forgotten, that this time we have — with our parents, our children, the people we love — is so very finite, so very fleeting, so very, very small.”
― Alison Wearing, Moments of Glad Grace: A Memoir

“I want to be someone so filled with curiosity and determination that I trundle around foreign cities looking for obscure pieces of a puzzle that might help me understand who I am, and still be game for Zumba when I’m eighty.”
― Alison Wearing, Moments of Glad Grace: A Memoir

“The music becomes boisterous and acoustic, at the low end of genius but brilliant in spirit and tone. It is joy by fiddle, laughter by accordion, Ireland through to the bone.”
― Alison Wearing, Moments of Glad Grace: A Memoir