Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.