Sophie Mann

“And if ever you wanted to quit your impatient girl truly, and our little story had to be stored away in a room that's only sometimes remembered, that's still a room I'd want, and I'd go there now and again, like some room in an old hotel on a seafront someplace where two sinners did something they shouldn't. Do you mind what I am telling you? It is the God's honest truth. Even if I never saw you or heard from you again, you'd already have been the miracle of my life.”
― Joseph O'Connor, Ghost Light

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

“For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn