Ann

“and she found things in her memory that she hadn’t been fully aware of, things that had lain unexamined and unfelt inside of her for all these years.”
― Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

“When you are in your twenties, even if you’re confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later … later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“He used his delicate sorrows as a battering ram, smashing his way into people’s hearts, where he could reside until he was bored, taking what he wanted.”
― Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

“Sow the wind and reap the maelstrom.”
― Richard Powers, Playground