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

“chuisle mo chroí: the pulse of my heart.”
― 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

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

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

“Manners were for shy people:”
― 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

“Children here knew too much”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“One hears about these attacks on the news, the shootings and bombings, But I think one has to hear or see the details to appreciate the suffering”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Yeah. I hate not finishing a book.
That's a good policy. Although sometimes I think life's too short.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Older people loved to talk about the war, especially the Blitz. Belfast endured the worst single night of bombing outside of London but it was more than that; the doodlebugs had been non-sectarian. They could talk about that war because this war was unspeakable.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“They are being treated unfairly. The system would not be tolerated anywhere else in the United Kingdom. Or in any civilised country for that matter,
There is no work for them. They are subjected to constant harassment. Every once in a while the police or army screws up so badly it results in a recruitment drive for the IRA.”
― 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

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