The Quiet Man Quotes

“You grew up in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. It was as white as white could be. Sure, we’ve diversified now, but back then, if it snowed we couldn’t feckin’ find each other.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Y’know,” she said, hefting the shotgun over her shoulder, “ever since I gave up the drink, drugs, cigarettes, gambling, sex, chocolate, meat, killing and dairy, peanuts are one of my few little treats in life. I know they’re not great for me, but damn, I really do love ’em.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“He had a very strong opinion that anything that stopped when it started raining wasn’t a sport. It was basically sunbathing with accessories.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Say another word,” yelled Lucile. “I dare you. Say one more word and I’m going to shove my clipboard so far up your ass you’ll be able to sign paperwork by blinking.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Bunny sat in his wheelchair and relayed the directions to Breida. He didn’t much enjoy being a passenger in a car, and this was way worse. He’d got in here to break Breida out, and now his role in proceedings had been reduced to being a piece of luggage.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Bunny crumpled to the ground, selling it harder than a soccer player in the penalty box. He cupped his face in his hands.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Her agent kept telling her how much buzz there was. So much buzz. It turned out you couldn’t buy groceries with buzz, so she supplemented her enormously successful but currently non-paying career as “the next big thing” with waiting tables in restaurants, alongside most of the actors in LA.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Then he remembered the horse. That explained his arse and the fact that he felt confident his posterior currently looked like a Jackson Pollock painting from a particularly dark period in the artist’s life.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Twenty years ago, when she was young and unbelievably naive, Miriam Margot had worked her ass off to become a psychotherapist. She’d longed to help people and develop a fascinating insight into the human mind. Two decades of a ringside seat to the mental state of the human race and, honestly, she held out no hope for the fate of the planet at all. Humanity was a virus. She couldn’t stand people. They were pathetic, mewling idiots, who didn’t want to fix anything, but instead wished to whine about it endlessly.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“Bunny crumpled to the ground, selling it harder than a soccer player in the penalty box.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“You grew up in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. It was as white as white could be. Sure, we’ve diversified now, but back then, if it snowed we couldn’t feckin’ find each other. There would have been more racially diverse KKK rallies. So what? Black people stole your opportunities, did they?”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“If the stare didn’t ward off the jackals completely, well, while he wasn’t as young as he once was, he was pretty confident that he was at the peak of his devious bastard career. Anyone who came for him was going to get a masterclass in fighting dirty. His opponent might win, but Bunny would at least lose in a way that discouraged anyone else from buying a ticket for the ride.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

“got my sweaty bollocks stuck to it. You grew up in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. It was as white as white could be. Sure, we’ve diversified now, but back then, if it snowed we couldn’t feckin’ find each other. There would have been more racially diverse KKK rallies. So what? Black people stole your opportunities, did they? I can think of only two who were in Dublin at that time. Out of curiosity, did you think you would have been the pearl at the centre of Ireland’s most successful international football team, but Paul McGrath took your place? Or do you reckon you were next in line to be the lead singer and bass player in Thin Lizzy but Phil Lynott swooped in and took it in some, I dunno, affirmative-action thing? Exactly how are the – how did you put it? Oh, yeah – ‘mongrel races’ responsible for you ending up being the useless waste of toilet roll you’ve become? I’d love to hear it.” Bunny”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man