Helen Kieran Reilly Quotes

• Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Beauty, Bearable

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Horse, Kindness, Gay

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• Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Sea, Fishes, Ifs

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• emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Discipline, Car, Emotion

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• Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Long, People, Meat

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• Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Grief, Joy, Exhausting

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• Time is the measure of that which changes.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Time

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• You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Trust

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