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1 " Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. "
― Frank Delaney , The Matchmaker of Kenmare (A Novel of Ireland, #2)
2 " The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. "
3 " Every pain is a lesson. "
4 " Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued. "
5 " Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person. "
6 " When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man. "
― Frank Delaney , Ireland
7 " Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier. "
8 " Her name was Sorcha--the English call it Sarah--and she grew up in a family related to the king of Leinster. "
9 " We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive. "
― Frank Delaney , The Last Storyteller (A Novel of Ireland, #3)
10 " To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever. "
― Frank Delaney
11 " A gust of wind snatched at her hat. She jumped from the wall and her skirts blew everywhere. I couldn't avoid glimpsing more than she intended, and I feared that she might have been embarrassed. Instead she laughed and said, "You're seeing my true colors," and I was the one who blushed. "
12 " We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence. "
― Frank Delaney , Tipperary
13 " I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books. "
14 " Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die. "
― Frank Delaney , Shannon
15 " What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers. "
16 " I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough. "
17 " The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul. "
18 " We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time. "
19 " The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from. "
20 " Pg 12"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed -- eventually. "
