Boy in the World Quotes

“Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in fact in motion all the time, doing nothing is not really doing nothing, it's allowing things to mover at their own pace”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World

“So is that what you’re doing too? Helping me because it’s a good bet that God exists and is watching? Shouldn’t people just do good anyway? Shouldn’t it not matter whether there is anything after? Shouldn’t it be just, I don’t know, human?”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World

“Well, the world is full of Liquorice Allsorts, as Josie says.”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World

“here were the stilled and profound minds of serious men and women who had considered things as they were and then written of them. In such a place he would have felt hope for the world. He would have felt the books were a proof of a kind,”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World

“In the streets cars had been abandoned.”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World

“Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning.
She stood by the cooker now watching him, the pale blueberries of her eyes, watching him with pride, her two hands brought up to her mouth the way she always did when she had feelings two large for words.”
― Niall Williams, Boy in the World