Laura Treacy Bentley > Quotes

“The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“Black and white has more emotion.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“Poem after poem after poem is the heartbeat of the human race.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley

“Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“I have always said that a picture book is a palace for a poem. I still believe that.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, Sir Grace and the Big Blizzard

“In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ocean air charges its way inside. It's as if Cuchulainn's raging soul had passed through the doorway.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“Three is a sacred number. Some say it represents the trinity or three layers of the soul.”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo

“Where does it lead, this rockrose path?”
― Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo