We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
Niall WilliamsWe tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
Niall WilliamsThe water is this marvellous blue. Itโs so blue that once you see it you realise youโve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, itโs not blue. This, this is blue. Itโs a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.
Niall WilliamsEach family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.
Niall Williams