On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul”
“What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?”
“Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.”
“I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough”
“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 about the heart?”
“And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happiness, or at least that daily contentment that I was once I do believe mistress of”
“I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans.”
“Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there”
“Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.”
“And what else could we have come here for, except to sense these tiny victories? Not the big victories that crush and kill the victor. Not the wars and civil ructions, but the saving grace of a Hollandaise sauce that has escaped all the possibilities of culinary disaster and is being spread like a yellow prayer on a plump cod steak - victoriously.”
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Book Keywords:
victory, solace, love, realization, joy, water, tragedy, awareness, war, meaning, affirmation, memory, soldiers, grief
