Quotes by Tyne O'Connell

About Tyne O'Connell:

Tyne O'Connell is a British author. She has written for publications such as Ms., Elle UK and Journal. Her short stories appear in Girls' Night Out and Kid's Night In. She is a contributor to Holiday Goddess.
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All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!".

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He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn’t recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron’s Don Juan was par for the course.

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When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

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We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

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The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink’s shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets

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Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

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Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with...

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I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

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The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

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I suppose a cycle courier knows better than anyone how a murder on Marble Arch can hold up traffic.

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She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as compliments until I realised I was too old, too fat, too tall, too dull, too everything to ever find love.

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I’ve got you under my skin, or is it just my eczma again?

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I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

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I had wasted my life in the pursuit of a career, romance, financial independence and the best heels in town when it seems I could have done more for my self esteem with a .38 calibre handgun

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What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

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Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

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She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look.

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Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world’s problems?

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The Only place to love a man or fight a man is below the belt

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I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

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It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress

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Author Bio

  • NameTyne O'Connell
  • DescriptionAuthor
  • Born1960
  • ProfessionNovelist