9 Quotes by Billy O'Connor

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    I tried to drown my demons with whiskey, but I found out real devils can swim.

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    The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.

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    My old man left Ireland’s stone, green fields to migrate to the glass, concrete canyons of New York in 1950.

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    In Nam, the jungle’s heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere.

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    I crashed the pipe murderously down onto his mouth and heard his upper teeth shatter at the gums.

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    The guys I owed were serious people. I was so busy raising cash; I barely had time to ignore my creditors.

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    I skipped two short steps and walloped the back of his head with an energy-charged swing of the pipe. The street collided with his jaw.

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    I knew I had to kill him,” Dom said. “I used my dad’s hunting rifle and boom – in the head – right over there by that tree.

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    The longer the wars, the younger the men who must finish them.

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