Quotes by Northern Irish Authors

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.
George Best
I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.
Garth Ennis
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
George Best
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
George Best
I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.
Garth Ennis
Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.
Garth Ennis
They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.
Garth Ennis
... time is how you spend your love ...
Nick Laird
No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.
Garth Ennis
Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe.Choked on cum...
Garth Ennis
Hate's a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So what's the point?
Stuart Neville
Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.
Garth Ennis
At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.
James White
Larger than life character; a couple of hundred years ago he would have been a pirate. "When in evil company, try to blend in" - that was one of his.
Garth Ennis
I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.
Garth Ennis
You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.
Garth Ennis
The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...
Garth Ennis
I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?
Garth Ennis
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain...
Van Morrison
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...
Van Morrison
I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.
Garth Ennis
In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn’t take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.
Oliver Jeffers
I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.
Garth Ennis
(...) I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to hard to sleep with them at such times. Times when you get impression that there's more to them than an opportunity. Sleeping with girls was great, sleeping with people was a bit more complicated. Maybe it was a bad thing, maybe a sign of my immaturity, but I knew that there was some kind of tenderness in it as well.
Robert McLiam Wilson
Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.
Garth Ennis
When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.
Garth Ennis
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!
Garth Ennis
After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.
Garth Ennis
It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.
Garth Ennis
Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.
Garth Ennis
Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?
Stuart Neville
All stories are love stories.
Robert McLiam Wilson
an English girl might well believethat time is how you spend your love.
Nick Laird
There is such a shelter in each other.
Nick Laird
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
Colin Bateman