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He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?

Childhood Quotes / Babies Quotes Children Quotes Infants Quotes Motherhood Quotes Yesterday's Weather Quotes

The path your words make as you herd them across the page is the only viable route, after all.

Writing Quotes

He slept like a shout.

The Green Road Quotes

Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance.Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.

Mothers and children Quotes

It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.

The Forgotten Waltz Quotes

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind - or did her mind go first, it's sort of hard to disentangle - and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn't say how that made me furious beyond measure.

Motherhood Quotes

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

The Green Road Quotes

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.

Dialect Quotes Humor Quotes Ireland Quotes Irish Quotes Language Quotes Yesterday's Weather Quotes

We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light.

Happiness Quotes Love Quotes / Yesterday's Weather Quotes

There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other’s tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

The Gathering Quotes

She tried to think of a number she could ring, or a site online, but there was nowhere she could find out what she needed to know. It was all about tomorrow: warm fronts, cold snaps, showers expected. No one ever stopped to describe yesterday's weather.

Yesterday's Weather Quotes

There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.

Family planning Quotes Funny but true Quotes The Gathering Quotes

Far below were the limestone flats they called the Flaggy Shore; grey rocks under a grey sky, and there were days when the sea was a glittering grey and your eyes could not tell if it was dusk or dawn, your eyes were always adjusting. It was like the rocks took the light and hid it away. And that was the thing about Boolavaun, it was a place that made itself hard to see.

The Green Road Quotes

It is not that the Hegartys don't know what they want, it is that they don't know HOW to want. Something about their wanting went catastrophically astray.

The Gathering Quotes

Of course I am bland, she thought. You too would be bland if you grew up with one gas pump in front of the house and nothing else except a view that stretched over half the world. Landscape made me bland, bears poking in the garbage can stunted my individuality, as did plagues of horseflies, permafrost, wild-fire, and the sun setting like a bomb. So much sky makes one bewildered - which is the proper way to be.

The Portable Virgin Quotes

I took my bag, and the suitcase of clothes, and I took the thing he wanted most - a little boy, maybe, as yet unmade; a sturdy little runaround fella, for sitting on his shoulders, and video games down the arcade, and football in the park.

The Forgotten Waltz Quotes

За това си мислех, ... че живея живота си в кавички. Мога да си взема ключовете и да се прибера "у дома", където ще "правя секс" с "моя съпруг" - както правят сума ти хора. И както правя аз от сума ти години. И не обръщах внимание на кавичките, нито забелязвах, че живея в тях ...

The Gathering Quotes

paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled.

The Green Road Quotes

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

The Green Road Quotes

But was talking aloud allowed?

The Green Road Quotes

I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.

They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...

The Gathering Quotes

Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia

Love Quotes / The Gathering Quotes

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

Truth Quotes / Emotion Quotes Management Quotes Mood Quotes Opinion Quotes Writing Quotes

All children are beautiful: the thing they do with their eyes that seems so dazzling when they take you all in, or seem to take you all in; it's like being looked at by an alien, or a cat - who knows what they see?

The Forgotten Waltz Quotes

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

The Gathering Quotes

Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.

The Gathering Quotes

Has the rain a father...What womb brings forth the ice?- Job: 38

Pondering Quotes What are You Like? Quotes

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Writing Quotes

I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped.

Condolence Quotes Death Quotes The Gathering Quotes

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

Sadness Quotes / Feelings Quotes Grief Quotes Humorous Quotes The Gathering Quotes

Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

Life and living Quotes The Gathering Quotes Unhappiness Quotes

Because that is what your babies do, when they grow. They turn around and say it is all your fault.

The Green Road Quotes

I have been falling for months. I have been falling into my own life, for months. And I am about to hit it now.

Life Quotes The Gathering Quotes

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

Alcohol Quotes Drinking Quotes The Gathering Quotes

There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimesit would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...

The Gathering Quotes

I see her on a Sunday after lunch, and we spend a pleasant afternoon, and when I leave I find she has run through me like water.

The Gathering Quotes

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.

The Gathering Quotes

Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke. And besides - who is to say what is the first and what is the final cause?-that I was living my life in inverted commas. I could pick up my keys and go 'home' where I could 'have sex' with my 'husband' just like lots of other people did. And I didn't seem to mind the inverted commas...This is how we all survive. We default to the oldest scar.So I left the house with a howl of regret for all I had been denied, though there was nothing there I actually wanted. I wanted out of there, that was all. I wanted a larger life.My children are of a different breed. They seem to grow like plants, to be made of twig and blossom and not of meat.There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...I try not to drink before half past five, but I always do drink - from the top of the wine bottle to the last, little drop. It is the only way I know to make the day end.

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

The Gathering Quotes

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.

Manners Quotes The Gathering Quotes

I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad

The Green Road Quotes

And dusk fell because it suited his skin.

Love Quotes / Dusk Quotes Sensual Quotes Skin Quotes What are You Like? Quotes

There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important... and it is just as you suspected - most of the stuff that you do is just stupid, really stupid, most of the stuff you do is just nagging and whining and picking up for people who are too lazy to love you.

The Gathering Quotes

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

The Gathering Quotes

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

The Gathering Quotes

the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

Amusing Quotes Character description Quotes Irish aphorism Quotes The Gathering Quotes

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Public tenderness Quotes The Gathering Quotes Touch Quotes

Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.

The Gathering Quotes

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