Colm Toibin Quote

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up...

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with...

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.