The Matchmaker of Kenmare Quotes
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“Every pain is a lesson.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“There's a legend...that says all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord. The matchmaking gods tie that cord around their ankles at birth, and in time the gods pull those cords tighter and tighter. Slowly, slowly, over the next twenty or thirty or forty years, they draw the couple toward each other until they meet.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare
“circumstances, I prepare with diligence and caution.”
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland
― The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland