Greta Wickham. He used to say if only Nora and Greta were here now, we wouldn’t be in this mess, even when there was no mess at all. Oh, he talked very warmly about you, Peggy interjected, and William...
For each day, she thought, she needed a whole other day to contemplate what had happened and store it away, get it out of her system so that it did not keep her awake at night or fill her dreams with...
Even though she let these thoughts run as fast as they would, she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for...
С Нурия чакаха с най-голямо нетърпение онези няколко седмици през август, когато родителите им занимаваха с приятели на пътешествие с яхта, а момичетата оставаха сами с баба си и гостите, които идваха...
What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.
She loved them, each of them, and found the differences between the four brothers intriguing, but sometimes she found the pleasure of being alone after a lunch or a supper with them greater than the p...
Rose appeared to be in a sort of dream. As Eilis watched her, it struck her that she had never seen Rose look so beautiful. And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need...
I remember too much; I am like the air on a calm day as it holds itself still, letting nothing escape.
From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.
Eilis was fascinated by [...] his sweet duplicity in giving no sign of what had happened before. She was almost glad to know that he had secrets and had ways of calmly keeping them.
And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended
Изслушването изисква повече усилия от говоренето.
We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she lay awake in the hospital those last few nights of her life: we had used up all of our time.
Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.
In the meantime, when I wake in the night, I want more. I want what happened not to have happened, to have taken another course.
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or hel...
I don’t go in for change. It is not one of my subjects. I have always taken the view that noticing change is a mistake. I notice what is directly in front of me.
Her two visitors are clearly some of the apostles, the men who wrote the New Testament; others, such as Miriam or her cousin Marcus, are invented.
Carefully, she went back up the stairs and found that if she moved along the first landing she would be able to see him from above. Somehow, she thought, if she could look at him, take him in clearly...
The problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live.