“ The problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live. Colm Toibin
“ Memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost and, even then, how much, under the weight of pure d… Colm Toibin
“ Trollope and Balzac, Zola and Dickens would, he felt, have become bitter old preachers, or mad hairy schoolmasters had they been born in New England and condemned to live amongst its people. Colm Toibin
“ There was a time, I know, when I felt rage and I felt sorrow. But now I have lost what leads up to rage and sorrow. Maybe the only reason I wander in these spaces has to do with some other feeling, or… Colm Toibin
“ On one of the nights during my journey I wandered out under the sky which was lit with stars and I believed for a moment that soon these stars would cease to glitter, that the nights of the future wou… 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. In the silence that had lingered, she realized, i… Colm Toibin
“ The men could be easily distinguished as fellow Americans by the quality of their mustaches and the innocent and amicable expressions on their faces; the several women could only have come from New En… Colm Toibin
“ She tried to think of Tony now as a loving and comforting presence, but she saw instead someone she was allied with whether she liked it or not, someone who was, she thought, unlikely to allow her to… Colm Toibin
“ She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion. Colm Toibin
“ New people arrive and tehy cold be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat e… Colm Toibin
“ If you don’t make mistakes, they’ll notice you and they’ll get to like you,’ she added. Eilis Colm Toibin
“ If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back. Colm Toibin
“ I have to give up everything, the house, the servants, my friends, my whole life. I will freeze to death or I will die of boredom. It will be a race between the two. Colm Toibin
“ 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 ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this… Colm Toibin
“ А междувременно имам само тази къща,тази светлина, тази свобода, и ще прекарвам времето, стига да имам нужната смелост, в съзерцаване на морето, ще отбелязвам промените му и звуците, които издава, ще… Colm Toibin
“ The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of th… Colm Toibin
“ New people arrive and they could be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat… Colm Toibin
“ Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her. She Colm Toibin
