Joe Alwyn Quotes

“I was not a name I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me. ”

“I’ll tell you what I don’t believe, Alwyn. I don’t believe there’s a pretty forest in the sky with castles and a white light and God and all his angels waiting to welcome all the good people in. And you and me standing there sick with nerves while they check us out to see if we’ve made the grade. That sounds too much like immigrating to Australia.”

“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an argument, and for their own sake. He would say, for example, "My farm was the very apocalypse of fertility, but the renter has rested on his oars till it is good for nothing," or "Manifest the bounty to pass the salt shaker in my direction." Something of the Bible, something of an Irish inheritance, something of a liar's anxiety, made of his most ordinary remark a strange and wearisome oratory.”

“Taking Mum's hand, I whispered "Are we really safe, here?”

“I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.”

“My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.Turned out, stories were just stories.I was on my own.”

“I called the desert into a storm.”

“It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.”

“I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.”

“We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.”