Quotes from Irvine Welsh

Un tizietto in tuta mi grida dal pianerottolo in alto che non dovrei stare qui. E' la storia della mia vita. Sempre in un posto dove non dovrei stare.

Because whatever I hear outside, cars scrunching down the narrow, council-house streets, sometimes sweeping their headlights across this fusty old room, drunks challenging or serenading the world, or the rending shrieks of cats taking their torturous pleasures, I know I won't hear that noise.

Es rarísimo que por un momento estemos aquí y al siguiente hayamos desaparecido. En un par de generaciones, a nadie le importará una mierda. No seremos más que unos gilipollas con ropas graciosas en fotografías descoloridas que un triste descendiente con demasiado tiempo libre saca del aparador para mirar de vez en cuando.

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.

Does it? Get easier, I mean, he asks urgently. The cop shakes his heid. — Does it fuck; it gets bleedin worse. All that happens is that the expectations you have of life fall. You just get used to all the shit. Renton

They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

You pushed me away mister. You rejected me. You tricked me and spoiled things between me and my true love. I've seen you before. Long ago, just lying there as you are now. Black, broken, dying, I was glad then and I'm glad now.

The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.

Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it.

Es bueno que la gente vea películas de guerra. Si todo el mundo viera películas de guerra, sabría que la guerra está mal y dejaría de luchar. Lo que sí está mal es que hay demasiadas películas de paz. Por eso la gente no puede ver con sus propios ojos que la guerra está mal.

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.

that fucker defines cuntishness.

Che c'è?» gli chiese Kibby, notando il suo sorriso contemplativo. «Stavo solo pensando che se cadessi in una botte con le Corrs nude, finiresti con il chitarrista che ti ciuccia l'uccello» sghignazzò Skinner.

Football divisions were a stupid and irrelevant nonsense, acting against the interest of working-class unity, ensuring that the bourgeoisie's hegemony went unchallenged.

Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente están mucho más predispuestos hacia la adicción a ciertas drogas que otros.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade por omissão, por não fazer nada porque não me importo com ninguém o suficiente pra intervir e tal, com exceção das pessoa que eu conheço bem . Por que não consigo me importar com todo mundo do jeito que me importo com quem eu conheço?

They start a tickling fight, laughing hysterically, and then they're necking again. Nicksy registers that his Scottish friend and the Bird With the Big Hair have adopted that arrogant 'look-at-us-we've-just-invented-sex' demeanor of people who're fucking after a long hiatus

Then she put it back in the bag and pulled out the bone-handled razor. Opened the blade. How light and lethal it felt in her hand. Allison rolled her sleeve up over her biceps and cut across the vein and artery. Warm blood splashed onto the tiled floor. Mum... It felt good, like the pain in her was leaking out with the blood, like a terrible pressure was being removed. It was soothing. She slid down the wall. Mum... But as she was there, things quickly changed; there was too much blood.

You said, when we embarked on this great adventure together, that lots of laughter was essential in a relationship. I agreed. You also made the point that a great deal of sex was of equal importance. Again, I agreed. Wholeheartedly. In fact I remember your exact words: laughter and sex are the barometers of a relationship. This was the statement you made, if I remember correctly. Don't get me wrong. I couldn't agree more. But no at the same time, ya fuckin cow.

Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite.