“ My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature Josephine Hart
“ The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage Josephine Hart
“ Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well. Josephine Hart
“ I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love… Josephine Hart
“ Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths. Josephine Hart
“ When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries.… Josephine Hart
“ And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's al… Josephine Hart
“ When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that you… Josephine Hart
“ She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her. Josephine Hart
