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> [What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/what-is-the-sound-of-an-eighty-nine-year-old-heart-breaking/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

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## More by Sebastian Barry

> [“As I do not seem able much to heal, then maybe I can simply be a responsible witness to the miracle of the ordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/as-i-do-not-seem-able-much-to-heal-then-maybe-i-can-simply-be-a/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/in-the-darkness-as-we-lie-side-by-side-john-cole-s-left-hand-snakes/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/his-people-had-hogs-there-till-the-bottom-fell-out-of-hogs-the-bottom/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/spring-comes-into-massachusetts-with-her-famous-flame-god-s-breath/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/and-whatever-my-life-had-been-up-to-that-day-it-was-another-life/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“The knives opened the flesh like they were painting paintings of a new country, sheer plains of dark land, with the red rivers bursting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/the-knives-opened-the-flesh-like-they-were-painting-paintings-of-a/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/i-suppose-therefore-god-is-the-connoisseur-of-filthied-hearts-and/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/there-is-a-craziness-in-it-all-that-betokens-a-kind-of-delicious/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/he-loved-telling-stories-he-had-been-everywhere-in-the-world-the/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/our-smiles-mostly-for-each-other-and-every-stranger-a-possible-demon/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/it-is-always-worth-itemizing-happiness-there-is-so-much-of-the-other/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/i-wonder-if-i-were-to-have-an-x-ray-at-the-little-hospital-would-the/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“No one says too much and what is said is only light-hearted and bantering because we want to preserve our advantage over fear. Fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/no-one-says-too-much-and-what-is-said-is-only-light-hearted-and/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/they-say-we-are-creatures-raised-by-god-above-the-animals-but-any-man/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

> [“There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/there-is-a-moment-in-the-history-of-every-beaten-child-when-his-mind/)

[Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/)

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