“I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
“I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I’m thinking. Why… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy,… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute… — donal ryan Copy Share
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her craziness. She… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“Even so, a lie in print looks truer than the truth sounds from the mouth of a fool.” — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“The Englishman's story seemed unlikely; there had to be a God. Who would have made everything otherwise?” — Donal Ryan Copy Share
That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
“and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a… — Donal Ryan Copy Share
