28 Quotes by Joseph O'Connor

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

You write for the winds, uncorrupted by hope and untouched by hope's sibling, despair.[Bram Stoker, to Walt Whitman]

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love.[Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]

It is important to remain afloat, eyes on the horizon, always. The past is a drowning madman; throw him a rope, he'll pull you in.[Bram Stoker]

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Most things between a woman and a man cannot be understood, it's why people invented love poems, a way of filling in the silence.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.