Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone’s life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

— Frank Delaney

Frank Delaney Quotes

A gust of wind snatched at her hat. She jumped from the wall and her skirts blew everywhere. I couldn’t avoid glimpsing more than she intended, and I feared that she might have been embarrassed. Instead she laughed and said, “You’re seeing my true colors,” and I was the one who blushed.

— Frank Delaney

Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone’s life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

— Frank Delaney

Every pain is a lesson.

— Frank Delaney

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn’t perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

— Frank Delaney

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

— Frank Delaney

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

— Frank Delaney

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

— Frank Delaney

Find your soul and you’ll live. Lose your soul and you’ll die.

— Frank Delaney

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war – bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

— Frank Delaney

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work – physically – in the same way.

— Frank Delaney

Writers have opinions – that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney
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I’d have to struggle to find a subject in which I can’t get some kind of interested pulse started.

— Frank Delaney

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called ‘libraries’

— Frank Delaney

Should; shouldn’t; ought; oughtn’t – the enemies of contentment.

— Frank Delaney

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It’s the currency by which everything is valued.

— Frank Delaney

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

— Frank Delaney

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn’t individual enough.

— Frank Delaney

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

— Frank Delaney
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