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Time of the Child
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"'Medicine was not nothing, from the anguish of spiritual meaninglessness there was reprieve in aiding another, though there remained the mystery why caring for the sick was easier than for the well, and for the stranger than your own blood. They were mysteries he couldn't solve...'" 17 hours, 49 min ago

 
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Arundhati Roy
“Even up to my very last day with her I never used to get used to or anticipate the sudden shifts, the sunlight and shadow, the precipitous climate changes in her moods. But I had learned to stand just outside the range of their clawing, lashing fury. Or so I thought. I often miscalculated. In truth I am constructed from its debris.”
Arundhati Roy

Niall Williams
“I chose Ganga's method for dealing with catastrophe and pretended nothing had happened. It wasn't so easy. The scene not only stayed with me, it grew larger for not being spoken and proved perhaps the theorem of imaginary numbers by showing that imagination is many times the size of reality.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Niall Williams
“There in the kitchen, I flushed into the roots of my hair and felt the stirring of a family trait I hadn't realised I possessed until right then, but which would inform the kind of life I would end up living, that is, what authority provoked in me was a desire to be an outlaw.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Robert Macfarlane
“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

Niall Williams
“The infancy of my playing was fostered by an absence of criticism. The wisdom of the old people was incalculable.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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