Emily

“Cushla likes her for it, for choosing the shrub that chokes the hills here, not roses or butterflies or stars.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“Are we all right? We’re doomed. Apart from that we’re grand.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

“After 1945, I, too, thought the world was partitioned, once and for all times, into good and evil, but now the world has already fallen apart again and again it's different. It was hardly fathomable, it happened so imperceptibly, now we've come together again just so that it can part once more along the lines of differing opinions and the deeds of differing minds, differing deeds. Do you understand?”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader

“Aside from the obvious one, this was the real difference between her and them. They had the confidence to be foolish, to be wrong.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses