I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and I get out of bed, open the curtains, and look into the night full of stars,… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“As if Riley and Amelia were lions, and we were a menage a trois of lively, prancing deer.” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Ah, even sitting here on my front porch, looking out over the fields, there's a part of me aches to see him walking. To conjure him out of the sunlight in the distance. The shape of my dad, I can almost see it, crossing the field toward me. Come to put his arm around me, reach out an arm to… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead. — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know. — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I never saw anything like it. He was like the bit in the movie where Tom Cruise is a lawyer and he's decided he's really going to win this case, for the sake of justice and the American way, and that? And it's suddenly like bang-bang-bang—grabbing files off shelves and slamming them down on the desk and punching numbers in… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share
