Philip

“his shyness is a kind of fear, or the memory of fear; that his silence is a difficulty in speaking; that his gentleness is a fragility; his solitude a form of exclusion...”
― Philippe Besson, The Summer Boy

“Thank god nobody asks what the problem is, content to let him lose whatever the fuck he's lost.”
― Margaret McDonald, Glasgow Boys: Ediz. italiana

“I wasn't chasing anything but atmosphere, the imagined picturesque I wanted to exist in.”
― Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

“She read and read, because she had woken these voices, and to stop reading would silence them.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead