Anne

“It was one of those moments when everything is out of balance, I suppose, and just watching an odd thing seems to make sense. The squirrel scampered up a tree trunk, the sound of its nails like water in a tub.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“She turned to me as if I might be again, or even for the first time, her husband and her friend, that these efforts, these manifestations of the ability of the human soul to recover, to begin again, just as the child may innocently invent again the old game so oft invented, were met only with the poor hand and dour face of tragedy.”
― Sebastion Barry

“To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.”
― Sebastian Barry

“A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.”
― Sebastian Barry