Tag: Irish Literature
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Intermezzo
“What if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
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Before My Actual Heart Breaks
“I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of his dark eyelashes dance by the light of a Tilley lamp. It’s not the first lie I’ve told myself.”
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Exciting Times
“I thought that if I let anyone in, they’d find out what was broken about me. And then not only would they know, I’d know too.”
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Milkman
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you…
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Normal People
“You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
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Conversations With Friends
“You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”
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