Emmet

“After my bedroom, this was my favourite place in the world. It was carpeted, and had heavy bookcases and ticking clocks and velvet chairs, just like someone’s living room. It smelled of unturned pages and unseen adventures, and on every shelf were people I had yet to meet, and places I had yet to visit. Each time, I lost myself in the corridors of books and the polished, wooden rooms, deciding which journey to go on next. Mrs”
― Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

“How is it that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?”
― Sebastian Barry, The Temporary Gentleman

“Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home any more. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

“A direct question in the company of men is in most contexts a sort of insult, something you learn young in Sligo bars.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Temporary Gentleman