Maggie

“He never knows what he wants. It changes completely from minute to minute, and he has no decisive inner voice that says 'This is the real you, this is what you desire.' Ed is blurry, to even himself. His outlines are vague. This is fine except that you need to be solid for other people. To have relationships, to be trusted, you have to say, 'This is me, this is what I want' and act as if that were true at all times.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“She has always imagined that if she had five minutes left on earth, she’d call the person she loved most and tell them all the things she needed them to know. But most goodbyes are small. They take place in the middle of stations and shopping centres, where there’s too much going on to really focus on the goodbye at all, distracted by the counter-terrorism alerts blaring from the station loudspeakers, and the queue for Greggs that snakes through the concourse.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“Behind you is the sea. Before you, the enemy.” I glance at him then continue. “You have left now only the hope of your courage and your constancy.”
― Susan Muaddi Darraj, Behind You Is the Sea

“She struggles with anything that involves a gathering of people, a voicing of feeling. It's not that she doesn't have feelings of her own, but as soon as they're spoken aloud, they sound false, and she's afraid of revealing something bad about herself.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends