Michaela

“It’s freedom, she says. It’s poverty, Charlie says. Poverty is always for free.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“There comes a time when you just have to live among your ghosts. You keep the conversation going. Elsewise the broad field of the future opens out as nothing but a vast emptiness.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Fathers throw the longer shadows. We get over the mothers, at last, but hardly ever the fathers, she said.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier