“We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First”
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
― 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”
― Wild Gestures: Stories
― Wild Gestures: Stories
“Indians look very puzzled, surprised and offended to be shot but they go to the wall with noble mien I must allow. You can’t have nothing good in war without you punishing the guilty, the sergeant says with a savage air and no one says nothing against that. John Cole whispers to me that most times that sergeant he just wrong but just now and then he’s right and he’s right this time. I guess I’m thinking this is true. We get drunk then and the sergeant is clutching his belly all evening and then everything is blotted out till you awake in the bright early morning needing a piss and then it all floods back into your brain what happened and it makes your heart yelp like a dog.”
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
“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”
― The Round House
― The Round House
“I may not have known much about pregnancies but I knew that you couldn’t have a son or a daughter without actually doing it first. The priests at school had once muttered something to the effect that when a mummy and a daddy loved each other very much, they lay close together and the Holy Spirit descended upon them to create the miracle of new life. (Charles, in his one attempt at a man-to-man talk with me, had put it rather differently. ‘Get her kit off,’ he said. ‘Play with her tits a bit, because the ladies love that. Then just stick your cock in her pussy and ram it in and out a bit. Don’t hang around too long in there – it’s not a bloody train station. Just do your business and get on with your day.’ It’s no wonder he managed to secure so many wives, the old romantic.) I”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
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