"Skippy Dies" Quotes
"Skippy Dies" follows the lives of a group of Irish boarding school students as they navigate love, friendship, and tragedy.
fiction | 661 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
What a mystery we are to ourselves.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism.
You're not allowed to call people hopeless. That's our word for each other.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
We're all haunted by our parents, I suppose, one way or another.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
I'm not a philosopher. I'm a fucker.
Our lives are all different and yet the same.
The world is built on stories, remember that. There's a story on every street corner.
Perhaps it's time I faced the fact that I'm not the hero of this story.
