"The Secret Scripture" Quotes
A woman in a mental hospital recounts her life story, revealing a web of secrets, in "The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry.
fiction | 300 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!
I think of a saying of the time, 'There are no atheists in the trenches.'
I remember the 1920s, the years of my success, as a time of sheer gladness and delight, but I can't recapture the feeling of those days; it was all so long ago.
I am quite happy to be set down in the middle of the past, to be tucked up in it like a child at nap-time.
The world is at its worst at night.
A man must find his place, and make his way, by the strength of his right hand, by the sweat of his brow.
Memory is a great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memory represents a perfect reproduction of the past, but I am not one of them.
I have forgiven many things in the past -- the past is something I am very familiar with -- but I have never forgiven the present.
We are all alike, and we love to lose ourselves in the stories of our own lives.
For our lives are but a passageway, a corridor; and when we are able to pass through it with good humour, and kindliness, then the world is a very good place.
