four quotes from Small Things Like These
Four quotes from the book “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan
And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again. And blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary.
If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore to keep on.
… he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there …
The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.
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