Sebastian Barry

“As I do not seem able much to heal, then maybe I can simply be a responsible witness to the miracle of…

— 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…

— Sebastian Barry

“His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America…

— Sebastian Barry

“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”

— Sebastian Barry

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

— Sebastian Barry

“The knives opened the flesh like they were painting paintings of a new country, sheer plains of dark land, with the red…

— Sebastian Barry

“I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them,…

— Sebastian Barry

“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a…

— Sebastian Barry

He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one…

— Sebastian Barry

“Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise”

— Sebastian Barry

“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sebastian Barry

“They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies.”

— Sebastian Barry

“There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off…

— Sebastian Barry

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

— Sebastian Barry

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or…

— Sebastian Barry

“History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.”

— Sebastian Barry

“There is a soughing in the beech trees and the ash, and the small music of the hens.”

— Sebastian Barry

“Men so sick they are dying of death.”

— Sebastian Barry

“When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest…

— Sebastian Barry

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items…

— Sebastian Barry

“Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.”

— Sebastian Barry

“Grizzled old bastard like him don’t go providing death-bed transformations.”

— Sebastian Barry

“with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying”

— Sebastian Barry