Quotes from Ken Bruen

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

I get through some print.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.

Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.

it's life... In all its granite hardness.

Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)

I've always been a reader; no matter what else I've lost, I hung on to that.

Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don't always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

In London, I tended to hang with the fallen.

I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry.

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.

The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.

Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less.

He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if………………………………… you can prove you don't need it.

He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.