“I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.” JudgmentAloneIsolatedAll AloneOutcastSebastian BarryThe Secret Scripture Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
“What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.” SufferingAloneIsolatedSebastian BarryThe Secret ScriptureInconsolableNo Comfort Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
“I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.” AloneIsolatedAvoidanceMisanthropicSebastian BarryThe Secret ScriptureReclusive Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
“A savage sense entered me, of being of such small account in the world that I wasn't to be helped, that priest and woman and man had put out an edict that I wasn't to be helped, I was to be left to the elements, just as I was, a walking animal, forsaken. Maybe it was then that some part of me leapt away from myself, something fled from my brain, I don't know.” IsolatedDissociationOutcastForsakenSebastian BarryThe Secret ScripturePariah Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
