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The Silver Tattoo QUOTES

The Silver Tattoo QUOTES

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. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

3 " 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. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

4 " 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. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

5 " 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. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

6 " 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. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

7 " Black and white has more emotion. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo

8 " Three is a sacred number. Some say it represents the trinity or three layers of the soul. "

― Laura Treacy Bentley , The Silver Tattoo