Neil

“Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“What it is to be a man,’ she said, ‘and to have days off.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I’m an ordinary, everyday mystic. I’m not claiming special powers, just a life steeped in mystery.”
― Barbara a Holmes

“What most tormented him was not so much how she'd been left in the coal shed or the stance of the Mother Superior; the worst was how the girl had been handled while he was present and how he'd allowed that and had not asked about her baby - the one thing she had asked him to do - and how he had taken the money and left her there at the table with nothing before her and the breast milk leaking under the little cardigan and staining her blouse, and how he'd gone on, like a hypocrite, to Mass.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These