On Dublin Street Quotes
"No human relation gives possession in another – every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone." - Khalil Gibran
"If I wanted to be a writer, I needed the right apartment and the right roommate."
"Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people."
"I’m just waiting for him to get bored with her like he does with the rest of them because she’s one of the worst he’s been with."
"The only confidence she did have was in her good looks and their ability to snag a guy to take care of her and her family."
"Jo was one of the misunderstood. She could grate on your nerves with her materialism, but humble you with her loyalty to her family."
"I’m not apologizing for this. It’s been the highlight of my week. Possibly my year." - Braden
"That’s how I always reacted when I was on the verge of having to tell someone the truth."
"Despite all my money, I wasn’t used to the obviously stylish, ‘cocktails and crème brulee’ kind of lifestyle these guys were used to."
"Braden’s mouth turned up in amusement as he answered Adam without taking his eyes off me, 'That I walked in on Jocelyn when she was wandering around the flat naked.'"
"Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything."
"I never get close enough to anyone for that to be an issue."
"You don't need to explain yourself to anyone."
"I think you're scared shitless. But from one scared shitless person to another, I know no one's going to change your mind."
"I don't do relationships, Ellie. I haven't got it in me."
"I've heard what Ellie had to say about you. And then there's how you are with me. You try not to give anything away."
"You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to her."
"Sometimes I think you do each other more damage than good."
"You’re alone because you made a choice. And it’s the wrong fucking choice."
"I’m used to taking caring of myself and not wanting to rely on anyone else."
"It’s the most honest I’ve ever been with anyone."
"You know you’re really putting pressure on my acting skills."
"I felt bad about maligning Ed, but I didn’t think it mattered too much since I wasn’t expecting him and Rhian to ever meet."
"If it was worth lying to me about, then it’s therapy-worthy."
"I’ve never been attracted to anyone as much as I’m attracted to him."
"Joss, maybe it’s time to stop thinking fifty steps in front of you and just let things play out naturally."
"You’re the one who lied to me. Seriously, what’s going on?"
"You’re a good person, which makes the fact that you don’t trust anyone, really hard for the people who care about you."
"Just know that if you ever do decide to trust me, I’m here."
"You’ve got great legs, Jocelyn. An amazing smile when you use it on occasion. And fantastic tits."
"Braden, I like you, I do. Yeah, you’re an overbearing ass and you say whatever is on your mind without filtering out the filth, but you seem like a good guy."
"A second proposal: when we’re fucking, you don’t argue with me."
"I’m being a child. Listen to you. He was a butt? What the hell, Adam?"
"If he cared about her, he should just be with her. What was so difficult about that?"
"I wasn’t the bullet, no. But I was the trigger."
"Luckily for you, I can work with nice and big."
"You see, I’d realized something. Something terrifying. I might not want to care about him, but I did."
"Sometimes words aren’t needed for you to know a change has come upon you."
"It’s too much," Braden had explained after asking me to accompany him to the dinner, which was really just a celebratory thing between him and the guy who’d bought it. "The nightclub has become a much bigger success than I was expecting, the estate agency is always pulling me into some problem or another and away from the property development which is what I enjoy, and I’m just spread too thin. La Cour was my dad’s. There’s not anything about it that has my stamp on it. So I sold it."
"We hung out at his apartment Wednesday night, mostly because we had to be quiet at my apartment, and that took some of the fun out of the sex."
"They’re gone. There’s nothing to talk about."
"I understand messed up, Jocelyn. Believe me."
"My dad was neglectfully affectionate with Ellie, nothing more."
"If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were."
"I killed her, Braden. I don’t deserve sympathy."
"Never. You’re so tiny I do it without really meaning to half the time."
"Oh babe, why are you so embarrassed? It was just a fart."
"Not even my relationship with Rhian had been as close."
"Maybe, Ellie and I weren’t that close. Maybe we never had been."
"There’s something going on here with you, Joss."
"You’ve got this, like, dead look in your eyes, Joss."
"Life is short. We should be with the people we love."
"I love you, Ellie Carmichael. You’re going to get through this."
"You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me."
"Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened."
"It's easy and un-extraordinary to be frightened of life. It's far more difficult to arm yourself with the good stuff despite all the bad and step foot into tomorrow as an everyday warrior."
"You make me laugh, you challenge me, you turn me on like no one else can. I feel like I'm missing something really important when you're gone."
"Grief and loss are probably the most fearful creatures that exist. They can teach us to worry about the future, to question the longevity of contentment, and prove us unable to enjoy happiness when we have it."
"Loss should teach us to cherish those we love, to never do anything that will result in regret, and to cheer on tomorrow with all of its promises of greatness."