Foster

by Claire Keegan

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

‘Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ‘there’s shame – and shame is something we can do without.’

Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.’

‘Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what’s coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.’