There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.