They probably don’t understand this, but it’s important for me to show them that their father is a man who dances – who saves lives and carries the wounded, yes, but who also does something completely...
The sea is one rare wild card left in the homogenous suburban life.
She wants to be something creative,' he murmured.'It's not something to want. It's something you have. It's a curse. One she doesn't have.
Shanksing across that country you stick out like a rat on a birthday cake.
Say I hit your number, called you up, you’d wonder what the fuck, every one of youse, and your mouth’d go dry. Maybe you’re just some stranger I pocket-dialled. Or one of them shitheads from school I...
Peace, that’s all I’m after.
He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.
You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them
Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.
That was the simple objective, being airborne, up longer, up higher, more casually & with more fuck off elegance than anyone else in the world. I never understood the rules or the science of it but I...
That eye... was like a fuckin hole in the universe
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.
And somehow, somewhere along the track, I went numb. I couldn’t say what it was & didn’t dare try. How do you explain the sense of being made to feel improper ? I withdrew into a watchful rectitude, a...
Radiates.
Out there houses are rare as rocking horse turds.
The spent shell come out the .243 shining like a bright idea.
So we had some blues, me and Fintan. He said we were merely conducting civilised conversation. But sometimes it was like he didn’t know how close he was to getting his head stove in. Or maybe he didn’...
On our hunger to control and know everything humans break and spoil
Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.
Glamour-hounds and donor-hogs they may be but he loved them.