“ It occurred to her that he had thought more closely about her over the previous few years than she had about him. She wondered if that could be true. She knew that how she felt affected him, and now,… Colm Toibin
“ Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here. Colm Toibin
“ That was not even ten years ago, it might have been six or seven years ago, and if anyone had told her that she would be standing here now listening to this song and all the things that had happened b… Colm Toibin
“ She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live. Colm Toibin
“ 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… Colm Toibin
“ 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. Colm Toibin
“ I remember too much; I am like the air on a calm day as it holds itself still, letting nothing escape. Colm Toibin
“ What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night. Colm Toibin
“ 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… Colm Toibin
“ 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. Colm Toibin
“ 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… Colm Toibin
“ 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… Colm Toibin
“ And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended Colm Toibin
“ 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… Colm Toibin
