He's fine. He's fine, ' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.' Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here? Anne Enright
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
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Lemony Snicket
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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Johnny Depp
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent...
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Barbara Kingsolver
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
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Dave Barry
Shrieking Brooke’s name as loudly as I could, out in the corridor, I brought her running quickly to my room.‘ What’s happened, what’s wrong?’ she immediately cried concerned, legging it up the stairs two at a time. She appeared breathless outside the kitchen door. Brian...
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Emily Williams
More Quotes By Anne Enright
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you Âfinish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy....
He's fine. He's fine, ' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.' Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world....
Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang...
I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that...
Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.
