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“It will either get better, stay the same, or get worse.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“You imagine that people look at you, searching for your shortcomings. “She didn’t wash her hair today.” “She really knows nothing about Foucault.” That’s what you imagine they are thinking, because that’s what you think about others. You”
― Annika Norlin, The Colony: A Novel

“Your father is a mystery it takes your whole life to unravel.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“And because in Faha, like in all country places, time was the only thing people could afford, all stories were long, all storytellers took their, and your, and anyone else’s, time, and all gave it up willingly, understanding that tales of anything as aberrant and contrary as human beings had to be long, not to say convoluted, had to be so long that they wouldn’t, and in fact couldn’t, be finished this side of the grave, and only for the fire gone out and the birds of dawn singing might be continuing still. As, from this, you can probably already tell, for storytelling, there were two principal styles available in Faha, the plain and the baroque. Plainness wore the guise of truth but was soon corrupted by politicians, Let me”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness