“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”
“I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.”
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
“My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He ll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He ll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody d shoot him.”
“he knows that it s impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean.”
“And now you re off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They ll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you re about. Everyone keep warning me about sailors, I complained. Why can t someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me? Granny snorted. Oh, you re the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!”
“It s always seemed to me that flirtation is a man s device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won t be taken seriously.”
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
“If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc”
“Macho does not prove mucho.”
“I don t know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they re just closet pyromaniacs.”
“Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.”
“Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.”
“The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.”
“It s men who trust they will suffer no consequences for their actions, while women suffer no matter what they do.”
“I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.”
“If he can t get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot? With great care, Donegan suggested. How about we run off shout and they follow? Said Gracious. Then, just when they think they ve caught us they fall into our trap. OK, said Tanith. And that trap would be? A big hole we d dug earlier and covered with branches. Tanith frowned. I thought you were meant to be smart. Gracious frowned back at her. Who told you that? Gracious is book smart, said Donegan. He leaves the real world thinking to people like you and me and small dogs that he meets. The innocent are often the wisest.”