Dimitra

“Cause of Death: the west of Ireland.”
― Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music

“I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“There is a stab of awareness at the beginning and at the end of love, and the feeling precisely replicates – it’s a twinge of cold certainty at either end of the affair, and it is twice terrifying.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier