Are You Somebody? Quotes

“If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

“My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

“A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

“When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

“But Ireland isn't just landscape, but history and present society. There was famine and brutality and emptiness in the country. And the damaged underclass I was part of in the afternoon pubs was as much part of Ireland as its beauty.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman