Naoise Dolan

In Russia, Edith had said, you could get Putin’s face on anything. Vodka, bread, you name it. In Hong Kong, the same was true of Hello Kitty.

I’d say, it’s like English grammar. It doesn’t make sense but it’s too late to change it.

Not all women idly contemplated whether their partners wanted to murder them and whether the prospect appealed, and if they did it was society that was sick, not them.

I’d never know if other people were as graphic as me in their daydreams and we all just pretended we weren’t. I’d once googled ‘what do serial killers think about’.

my niveau de français is between me and God.

sometimes i love you and sometimes i think it would be best if a plane flew into your office and you were on the plane or in the building.

I enjoyed conversations where I wasn’t attempting to persuade anyone, where I just said precisely what I thought. I got tired of making myself acceptable.

I nearly asked if she knew Holly Golightly was bisexual. Having formulated the remark and decided how I’d orchestrate my body language while making it, I blushed nearly as much as I would if I’d actually said it.

We agreed also that the British obsession with dogs was creepy, both because of the volume of other animals they ate and in light of their historic and contemporary level of regard for humans.

She said maybe it didn’t matter how many languages you learned. You always brought the flavour of your first.