Best 25 quotes of Moira Young on MyQuotes

Anyways, settin so much store in one person...it's dangerous.

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens. I stare at him. I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa. That's my girl.

Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run. No! If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.

he’s seen enough to know that you can’t kill all the badness in the world. You cut it down in front of you only to find that it's standing right behind you.

How can you make light of it? I says. What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows?...You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.

I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's- More, like a person than a bird? I says. Yeah, she says. That's it. Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says. I was fine till I met you, he says.

I'm alert, full of purpose, free. An few the first time in a long time, I can breathe.

It's always bin a bloody world, she says. Only nowadays, some people's blood is better than others.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

Love makes you weak.

Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.

Lugh's decided to stick with bein mad at me. It's like traveling with a storm cloud. One of them that hangs low an heavy. The kind that builds an broods an keeps on buildin an brood in till everybody's got a sick headache.

Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.

Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.

Sometimes the strong give birth to the weak. An sometimes the weak grow to be strong

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.

This might not mean much to you right now, but fer what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better'n most. Life ain't black an white. People ain't neether. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a lot more complicated. The longer I live, the more I see, the less I know fer sure. Especially when it comes to matters of the heart. So dry yer tears. Whoever he is, he won't be cryin over you. Men never do. That's the one thing I do know fer sure. Now, muck up them boots a bit.

We're bein cut asunder, Lugh an me. Bit By bit. An it makes me think. It makes me wonder. Is this how he feels when he sees me with Jack? Do I look at Jack the way Lugh looks at Maev? Helpess. Throat bared. Hopeless.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

You got no idea, do you? You got no idea how beautiful you are.

You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.