“The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldYearsLittlesDesireKnownFieldsSummerAnd LoveStrangerConclusionMotiveDecentSunlightMiraculousMarginsLambs Author:Sebastian Barry
“I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.” KnowsPainFrontsControlledThoughts In Your Head Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.” KnowsStillsEnoughPastHappeningsTricksPassingPassingsBrushesConvenienceUnfoldingTime PassingRibbonsCombsHandbags Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture
