“Yes, things endure, while the living lapse.” EnduranceThe SeaIrish LiteratureJohn Banville Book:The Sea Source: The Sea
“Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self. And incredulity, that too was a large part of being happy, I mean that euphoric inability fully to believe one's simple luck.” HappinessThe SeaIrish LiteratureJohn Banville Book:The Sea Source: The Sea
“And my life is changed forever. But then, at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all?” LifeDeathChangeThe SeaIrish LiteratureJohn Banville Book:The Sea Source: The Sea
“At the seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” The SeaPlastic Image Author:John Banville
“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” The SeaPlastic Image Book:The Sea Source: The Sea