A Guest at the Feast Quotes

“I saw most of the Bergman films... and I believed in their northern gloom and deep seriousness as I believed in nothing else.”
― Colm Tóibín, A Guest at the Feast

“In other words, instead of battling cancer I was becoming foolishly respectful of it. Like Shakespeare, Newman, Whitelaw, Monkstown and Merkel, it would not respond well to being underestimated”
― Colm Tóibín, A Guest at the Feast: Essays

“All of us have a landscape of the soul, places whose contours and resonances are etched into us and haunt us. If we ever became ghosts, these are the places to which we would return.”
― Colm Tóibín, A Guest at the Feast

“The difference between the detailed plans he drew up and the house itself when finished, so filled with raked sea light, is the difference between the body and the soul, between musical notation and a song, between the idea for a drawing and the actual drawing itself.”
― Colm Tóibín, A Guest at the Feast