Ryn

“They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“I only say it because without saying I don't think anything can be properly understood. How we were able to see slaughter without flinching. Because we were nothing ourselves, to begin with. We knew what to do with nothing, we were at home there. I almost wasn't able to say, my father died too. I saw his body. Hunger is a sort of fire, a furnace. I loved my father when I was a human person formerly. Then he died and I was hungry and then the ship. Then nothing. Then America. Then John Cole. John Cole was my love, all my love.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“Terror is just the cousin of courage.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“I guess love laughs at history a little.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End