Emily Rose

“A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life”
― Katie Heaney, Dear Emma

“When you lost the energy to be sad, anger would tag in for a relief shift.”
― Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's an infuriating quirk of the brain that I remember my first taste of a banana sandwich but not the moment I was told Mammy had died.”
― Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir