“A tenger iránti érdeklődését mindannyian megértjük, némelyeknek azonban nehezére esik felfogni, hogy az irodalomban mit talál olyan figyelemre méltónak. A sagák olvasása persze élvezetes, hiszen izlandiakról szólnak, néha érdekesek és elég izgalmasak is, hősök is vannak bennük, akikhez mérheti magát az ember, a népmeséket is lehet olvasgatni, a hétköznapi életről meg a bátor tettekről szóló könyveket is, sőt egy-két verset is akár, leginkább olyan költőktől, akik izlandiakról írnak, és tudnak valamit a szénabetakarításról és a jószággal való bánásról is; na de hogy egy hajóskapitány az irodalmat egy szintre emelje a hallal, hát kérem, miféle kapitány az?”
― Heaven and Hell
― Heaven and Hell
“Being poor controls how you see yourself, how you trust and speak, how you see the world and how you dream.”
― Poor
― Poor
“She wished that she could pray now for something – for Declan to be better, or for Declan not to be worse. But she realised as she walked through the car park and then up through the fields that she could not pray. She could only wish; and she fervently wished that what was coming could be delayed or stopped as she made her way along the road into the village.”
― The Blackwater Lightship
― The Blackwater Lightship
“And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Carmel couldn’t figure it out. How had she ended up with this job, for which she had never applied? Was it the sex – which got good for about two minutes and then wasn’t? Or staying over? Maybe that was where the spell got cast. Maybe, if you were a woman, the act of sleeping was enough. It could happen on a bus, you could do it on a plane. You could nod off, wake up beside some strange man who was now yours to mind for life. Carmel wanted to laugh, but actually there was an inner shrieking in her head going, I have a daughter. I have a daughter. I have a daughter, you bitch, she is only nine.”
― The Wren, the Wren
― The Wren, the Wren
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