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

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.