So Late in the Day Quotes

“You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

“She watched the clock on the bedside table, the red numbers changing. The cat was watching her, his eyes dark as apple seeds. She thought of Antarctica, the snow and ice and the bodies of dead explorers. Then she thought of hell, and then eternity.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

“Then a line from something he’d read somewhere came to him, to do with endings: about how, if things have not ended badly, that they have not ended.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

“Down on the lawns, some people were out sunbathing and there were children, and beds plump with flowers; so much of life carrying smoothly on, despite the tangle of human upsets and the knowledge of how everything must end.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

“Then he thought of that clafoutis, and how it had turned out to be burned at the edges and half-raw in the centre – and a strange, almost comical noise came from somewhere down inside; didn’t they say that a woman in love burned your dinner and that when she no longer cared she served it up half-raw?”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

“She was wearing a white trouser suit and sandals, sunglasses, a string of multicoloured beads around her neck.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

“You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’

‘So I’m a misogynist now?’

‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men