Laura Baas

“You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“His eyes were dimmed with tears, and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man