Trespasses Quotes

“Aside from the obvious one, this was the real difference between her and them. They had the confidence to be foolish, to be wrong.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Are we all right? We’re doomed. Apart from that we’re grand.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Booby trap. Incendiary device. Gelignite. Nitroglycerine. Petrol bomb. Rubber bullets. Saracen. Internment. The Special Powers Act. Vanguard. The vocabulary of a seven-year-old child now.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“It was so much easier to say nothing than to forget. This is what Cushla remembered.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“She had got a lumber off a barrister in a car and now she was an expert on the criminal justice system.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Humor is most effective when it’s mutual,”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“It ain’t me, babe, he said.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Manners were for shy people:”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“chuisle mo chroí: the pulse of my heart.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“She blamed Vatican II for her lack of enthusiasm, said it wasn’t the same since they abolished the Latin Mass;”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“She looks at his face, afraid she will see fear or pain, but he looks just as he did when he was sleeping.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Cushla likes her for it, for choosing the shrub that chokes the hills here, not roses or butterflies or stars.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Fuck up, Karen, she said, switching it off.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses