Shelagh Delaney Quotes

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.