Dead Man's Sins Quotes

“Nuns didn’t age in human years,”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“You can't trust writers. They make up nonsense for a living”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“What kind of fecking nuns are you?"
"Ever seen the Sound of Music?"
"Yes"
"Not that kind”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“Can we agree that this must be rock bottom? I mean, I know you’ve been playing out this Hunter S. Thompson thing for a while now, but even you must see that it’s gotten way out of hand?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“What he wanted more than anything was to get blind drunk. The logic being that you can’t remember your problems if you can’t even remember your own name. Yes, it was only a short-term solution, but seeing as he had no long-term one, it’d do.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“All abusers are masterful manipulators, that’s how they get away with it. They lie, and we believe them, because we are decent people who think like decent people. It’s only natural to believe it will never happen again, because decent people can’t believe it happened the first time.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“Butch shook her head. “No, thanks.” She looked down at the feline still sleeping on her lap. “Have you ever considered maybe getting a cat?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“He nodded. “Would this be a bad time to bring up the fact that I do not own a cat?” Butch considered the sleeping feline. “What? But the thing was sitting on your doorstep and walked in like it owns the place?” “Yeah,” said Bunny. “It’s a cat. That’s what cats do.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“but then he’d long ago realised that guilt didn’t need a reason. It was just something you collected more and more of as you went through life.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“The missus,” Ferguson continued, “devious wench that she is, was, in hindsight, far too keen to compromise. I expressed the firm opinion that I wanted a Labrador, for her part she wanted a poodle, and what we ended up with was Kevin. He is a Labradoodle, which I belatedly realised was what my wife wanted all along.” “Well,” said O’Rourke, “he seems nice.” “Nice. Yes, well, nice – that is exactly the problem. What I wanted was a manly hound, man’s best friend. What I got was something that looks as if it should be playing keyboard in an 80s pop band. I feel frankly ridiculous walking him about.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“All the time I spent working in that area, d’ye know what I learned? Nobody hits a kid by accident. They hit a kid because they’re the kind of arsehole who hits a kid. And they never ever do it just once.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“He himself was malleable on the importance of truth in relation to a good story.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“That’s the word on the street.” “The street?” scoffed Finlay. “How would you know? Does your book club meet on it?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“What he wanted more than anything was to get blind drunk. The logic being that you can’t remember your problems if you can’t even remember your own name. Yes, it was only a short-term solution, but seeing as”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins