Fran Mulhern

“Beware, beware of those who care,’ as some wise person said. Not that I’m suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, ‘Fine words butter no parsnips,’ and she might have added, ‘Caring should be felt and not heard.”
― Salley Vickers, Cousins

“THERE’S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“And so it is to alcohol and women that the guilty man turns. This”
― Lucy Durneen, Wild Gestures: Stories

“Women don’t realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening. And”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House