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1 " Where does it lead, this rockrose path? "
― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo
2 " The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver. "
3 " I have always said that a picture book is a palace for a poem. I still believe that. "
― Laura Treacy Bentley , Sir Grace and the Big Blizzard
4 " Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye. "
5 " In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office. "
6 " If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain. "
7 " The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ocean air charges its way inside. It's as if Cuchulainn's raging soul had passed through the doorway. "
8 " Poem after poem after poem is the heartbeat of the human race. "
― Laura Treacy Bentley
9 " Black and white has more emotion. "
10 " Three is a sacred number. Some say it represents the trinity or three layers of the soul. "
