“ And she saw all three of them—Tony, Jim, her mother—as figures whom she could only damage, as innocent people surrounded by light and clarity, and circling around them was herself, dark, uncertain. Colm Toibin
“ Не знам колко време щеше да оцелее на брега, ако не го бях спасил. Нямам представа колко трае животът на камъните по уексфордските плажове. Colm Toibin
“ This was a piece of gross presumption on Mrs. Kehoe’s part but also that the decision to give her, the most recently arrived, the best room in the house not only would cause bitterness and difficulty… Colm Toibin
“ If you want witnesses then I am one and I can tell you now, when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it. Colm Toibin
“ You have asked two questions, and I will answer them separately, Gray said. Trollope writes with precision and feeling about love and marriage. Yes, I can assure you of that. Now, the second question… Colm Toibin
“ Would a promise not be the same?If you can promise, then you can easily do this, he said. Colm Toibin
“ What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. * Colm Toibin
“ We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don’t. Their power is waning. Soon, it will be a different world. It w… Colm Toibin
“ Wait until you’re old, Nora, she said, and then you’ll know. It’s the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything. Colm Toibin
“ Tony was so wrapped up in the game that it gave her a chance to let her thoughts linger on him, float towards him, noting how different from her he was in every way. The idea that he would never see h… Colm Toibin
“ I’m hungry. We’re all hungry. But, darling, you don’t need to look hungry. Pretend you are full. And Colm Toibin
“ It was later, when she got home and lay in the bed after her evening meal, that the day she had just spent would seem like one of the longest of her life as she would find herself going through it sce… Colm Toibin
“ Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant less than the marl and the mud and the dry clay of the clif… Colm Toibin
“ I saw him trying to struggle and call out. But because of the robe, he could not move and his voice could not be heard. I caught his hair and pulled his head back. I showed him the knife, pointing it… Colm Toibin
“ Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed to him closer to resolved happiness than he had ever imag… Colm Toibin
“ He was the boy I had given birth to and he was more defenceless now than he had been then. Colm Toibin
“ Even when she woke in the night and thought about it, she did not allow herself to conclude that she did not want to go. Colm Toibin
“ By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for… Colm Toibin
“ And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance. Colm Toibin
“ Аз не подозирах, че музиката, която тази нощ ме извиси и изтръгна от самия мен, която бях възприел като велико ново начало, след десетилетие ще ми се струва сладникава и несериозна, недостатъчно герма… Colm Toibin
