The Sandycove Supper Club Quotes

“In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?”
― Rae Meadows, Mothers and Daughters

“Be nice to yourself, don’t work so hard. Do things you love. Live the life you deserve.”
― Siân O'Gorman, Friends Like Us

“strange things do happen every day, interesting things. You’ve just got to notice them, be alive to them.”
― Siân O'Gorman, Friends Like Us

“Life is for daily adventures, cold ocean swims and interesting conversations and deep kisses.”
― Siân O'Gorman, Friends Like Us

“But pots of money do not equal happiness. No one actually believes that until they find themselves with spare money but not the things they actually want - love, companionship, respect - all of which are free.”
― Siân O'Gorman, Friends Like Us

“Why does no one warn you, tell you that there is a sell-by date on freedom? That life gets smaller as you get older?”
― Siân O'Gorman, Friends Like Us

“I thought of the Maya Angelou quote – if I’d known better, I would have done better. ‘Well, Foxy,’ I said, ‘now I know a little better than I did last year.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“Knowing your worth, that was the key to happiness. Knowing your worth and, more importantly, knowing the worth of the people you love. It might keep out those who weren’t right for you and keep in the ones who were.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“Believe that further shore… Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles… And cures and healing wells.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“You could tie yourself up in knots thinking of the paths not taken… but all you have is the road you did take.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“What is it, that rain falls but the sun will always shine? You need to remember that the sun is always there, waiting for you to notice again.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“You don’t always choose what happens to you in life, but you should always choose who you spend your time with.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“Soon.’ ‘There’s no soon, there’s only now. The time we wait for is already here.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“And it doesn’t matter what it is and where you get it from, but you need something bigger than yourself to inspire you to get out of bed, to keep on fighting, to make you braver than you thought you could be.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Sunset Swimmers

“You could spend forever pondering the what ifs,’ said Nora. ‘We must celebrate the just ares.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Sunset Swimmers

“resigned”
― Siân O'Gorman, Mothers and Daughters

“Of course I couldn’t leave. I had to see this thing through. Getting out would be giving up and mature adults stuck things out. Marriage wasn’t like a pottery evening class which you tried out and gave up on when you realised you weren’t much good at it.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“Sometimes when you are firefighting in your life, you make bad decisions everywhere else. It might explain why everything was imploding.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“Failure is essential,’ said Paddy. ‘Failure should be celebrated, not success. Failure is where you learn who you are.”
― Siân O'Gorman, The Sandycove Supper Club

“é una strana accozzaglia di cose, vero? Ciò che resta di una vita.”
― Rae Meadows, Mothers and Daughters

“don’t trust men who fancy themselves more than you.”
― Siân O'Gorman, Together Forever