Irene van der Schaar

“We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower