Bloody Christmas Quotes

“In ten years’ time you’ll look back at twenty-six and wish you’d realised you had your whole life ahead of you. And at forty-six you’ll look back at thirty-six and think the exact same thing. The world is full of people killing time because they think they’ve no time left.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“Have you ever noticed how it is almost always men who are banging on about tradition? That’s because the world used to be set up exactly how they like it and things changing doesn’t suit them. That’s all tradition is: people having no other justification for the stupid way things are done.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“Seriously though, how can I ever thank you?” “For feck’s sake woman, you own a pub!”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“If you don’t mind me saying, you are a very peculiar man.” “Sane though. I’ve got a piece of paper.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“It’s the winter. The Homo sapiens is supposed to put on a layer of fat to help maintain itself and keep warm through the colder months.” “Is that right? Are you expecting another ice age?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“He was aware that younger lads and even more tragically, some older lads, felt that the height of modern romance was sending a picture of your tackle to a lady, but he found the idea horrific. Bar anything else, he’d never considered that to be an attractive bit of kit. It looked like something you’d find in a butcher’s bin. If that made the top five list of your best features, then you needed to take a night class or learn to juggle or something, because you were not much of a catch.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“It’s like how you could go through your whole life and never meet an unsuccessful parachutist. That didn’t mean they didn’t exist. They did, but only for as long as it took gravity to prove an emphatic point from ten thousand feet.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“I’m not saying I wouldn’t like to see proof of your possession of the full picnic’s worth of sandwiches, but I’m in a weakened enough state to take your word for it.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“Wang Min nodded and pointed at himself. “Statistician.” “Great,” said Bunny. “If his English was better, he could help us figure out the odds on this turning out well.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“It had recently dawned to her that the problem with using successfull people as your role models is that they represented a tiny sample size. It didnt take into account all the other people who'd also made 'daring' choices in their lives and wound up at dead ends or just plain dead.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“It's like how you could go through your entire life and never meet an unsuccessful parachutist. That didn't men they didn't exist. They did, but only for as long as it took gravity to prove an emphatic point from ten thousand feet.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“Did stress bring on early labour? Tara wasn’t sure. She knew that sex and curry apparently did. In the case of her cousin Cheryl, they’d also played a fairly big role in conception.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“Bonner smiled. “Are you going to tell me next how when you were a kid you only got an orange for Christmas, Sarge?” O’Keefe took a sip on his coffee to hide a smile. “Cheeky bitch, I’m not that old.” “Or that fond of fruit.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“And FYI, you mean astronomer not astrologer.” “Do I?” “Ye do. Astrologer is all that star sign nonsense.” “Are you sure?” “I am,” said Tara. “The fight it caused is the reason we stopped having a table quiz.” “I thought that was because of who invented the light bulb?” “No, that’s the reason we no longer have a quiz machine. The clientele of this pub take trivia knowledge far too bleedin’ seriously.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas