“The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy, or the hard light of knowing in people’s eyes.” — 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
