Quotes from Ken Bruen

The country was still smoking like Bette Davis in her prime.

I'm not a woman, I'm your wife.

Galway is one of those cities where sound carries along the breeze like the faintest whisper of prayers you never said, muted but present.

If God seems far away, who moved?

A GALWAY LAMENT You watched—through April from a place of forbearance … called fortitude.

Where have you been? We are the Missions.

And you have held my hand for reasons not at all

The guy tells me evil hones in on those closest to redemption.

Dead children do not give us memories, they give us dreams." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking   I

During my final London weeks, I'd watched Wolf Hall and marveled at the absolute stillness of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. In an era of all things Kardashian, it was quite astonishing to see such major and with such little movement. In some ways, I'd have killed for stillness and perhaps only being killed would still me. Still.

You can travel without moving.

but the fact we knew less seemed to suit us better. Now we know everything and talk to nobody.

Mind the darkness. Evil rarely appears that on the surface.

Nietzsche wrote that 'to shame a man is to kill him'.

Life needs a touch of mystery and not everything requires an answer

parties without a Jameson are like Zen without the echoing yawn.

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Galway born Jack Taylor helped apprehend the person suspected of killing swans. In recent weeks, residents of the Claddagh had been outraged at the attacks. A spokesperson for the area said, "The swans are part of our heritage." Mr Taylor, an ex-guard, had mounted a vigil over a number of nights. The alleged perpetrator is believed to be a teenage boy from the Salthill area of the city. Superintendent Clancy, in a brief statement, said: "The guards are increasingly

Whether it's true or not, who cares? The truth is for teenagers and hippies. We're too old and ugly for that crap. Wake me up, make me think, or buy me a drink. Otherwise, fuck off." Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

Works for Paul Auster, so who am I to argue?

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.