Granny quotes from Belfast (2021)

Granny

I'm always saying to your man there, what's yours is mine, and what's mine's me own.

Buddy

She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything. And then when we go out to the playground, she always goes off with the other girls. Anyways, I think she loves that other fella.

Pop

Ah, you don't know that for sure. Women are very mysterious.

Granny

And women can smash your face in, too, mister.

Pop

Your granny's become less mysterious over the years.

Buddy

We're going to the pictures. He's taking us to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Granny

What in the name of God is that?

Buddy

It's a flying car.

Granny

Oh, God, I've heard it all.

Buddy

It goes over a cliff, and you nearly fall out of your seat. Do you want to come? It'll be company for you till my Pop's home.

Granny

If God had wanted me to see flying cars, I'd have been born with blinking wings. You love your films, don't you? I was a great one for the pictures when I was your age. I used to think you could climb right inside the screen and visit all those strange places you saw. Like that one in that film. What was that, uh...? Uh, Lost Horizons. Did you ever see that?

Buddy

No. What was the name of the place, Granny?

Granny

Shangri-La. That's what they called it.

Buddy

Did you ever go there?

Granny

There were no roads to Shangri-La from our part of Belfast.

Pop

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Granny

Oh, is that what does it?

Pop

Yeah, well, you don't usually buy your wisdom with a walk in the park. Your heart has to explode.

Pop

When you've gray hair, people think your heart never skipped.

Granny

Did yours ever skip?

Pop

Aye, it danced a bloody jig every time you walked in the room.

Granny

Nah. You were full of it then, and you're full of it now.