“ It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can. Sebastian Barry
“ After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. Sebastian Barry
“ I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that. Sebastian Barry
“ I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desi… Sebastian Barry
“ It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that theref… Sebastian Barry
“ And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. Sebastian Barry
