Home > Work > Days Without End (Days Without End #1)
41 " Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then. "
― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)
42 " A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. "
43 " We are not lovers rushing to embrace but there is a sense of terrifying union none the less, as if courage yearns to join with courage. "
44 " Grizzled old bastard like him don’t go providing death-bed transformations. "
45 " Thousands die everywhere always. The world don’t care much, it just don’t mind much. That’s what I notice about it. There is that great wailing and distress and then the pacifying waters close over everything, old Father Time washes his hands. On he plods to the next place. "
46 " who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven "
47 " Out there in the silent prairie with only the perpetual wind for music and he tells us to charge. Ain’t there an old story about a windmill? "
48 " We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First "
49 " THERE’S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes "
50 " Life wants you to go down and suffer far as I can see. You gotta dance around all that. A child must come out to dance and dance around all obstacles and dance in the end the creaky quadrille of age. "
51 " Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire. "
52 " Thus we inaugurate the best time in the little kingdom we have pitched up against the darkness. "
53 " Can’t get that drummer boy out of my inner eye. He’s stuck in there like a floating thing. I guess he should a got more from living than he did. Brave lad out of Missouri and cheery and not expecting nothing. His head rolling about a lonesome meadow in Virginia. Bright eyes and now they put him in a hole. By God it wouldn’t even be good enough to weep for him. "
54 " Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul. "
55 " We been through many slaughters, John Cole and me. But I am as peaceful and easy now as I ever been. Fear flies off and my box of thoughts feels light. "
56 " Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view. "
57 " There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They seen a flickering picture of beauty. "
58 " ...I know I can rely on the kindness of folk along the way. The ones that don't try to rob me will feed me. That how it is in America. "
59 " It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you or your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots. "
60 " might be a later addition. "