Цитаты из книг — Клэр Киган

nika_8

17 февраля 2024 г., 23:04

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I go down steps until I reach the water. I breathe and hear the sound my breath makes over the still mouth of the well so I breathe harder for a while to feel these sounds I make, coming back.

Foster

Claire Keegan

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nika_8

22 февраля 2024 г., 23:40

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‘Daddy,’ I keep calling him, keep warning him. ‘Daddy.’

Foster

Claire Keegan

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nika_8

22 февраля 2024 г., 23:39

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Now that I know I must go home, I almost want to go, to get it over with. I wake earlier than usual and look out at the wet fields, the dripping trees, the hills, which seem greener than they did when I came. I think back to this time and it seems so long ago, when I used to wet the bed and worry about breaking things.

Foster

Claire Keegan

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dandelion_girl

2 февраля 2024 г., 19:32

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Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.

Foster

Клэр Киган

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VeraGru

22 марта 2025 г., 18:09

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When he reaches the shallow water, he crawls up onto the beach and collapses on the sand. He is breathing hard and looking around but the tide has taken his clothes. He imagines the first species that crawled out of the sea, the amount of courage that took. He lies there until his breath comes back then makes his way back…

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Walk the Blue Fields

Клэр Киган

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VeraGru

22 марта 2025 г., 18:08

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Why are opposites always so close? It’s like those beautiful, high notes on the violin, just a hair’s breadth away from a screech.

Walk the Blue Fields

Клэр Киган

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VeraGru

21 марта 2025 г., 13:47

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The laughter tumbles quickly into a fragile silence.

Walk the Blue Fields

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VeraGru

21 марта 2025 г., 13:46

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Laughter will carry up the avenue, clear, like birdcall over water.

Walk the Blue Fields

Клэр Киган

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VeraGru

21 марта 2025 г., 13:54

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... He pushes the bride into a spin, but when he turns, to spin off her, his hand does not catch hers; instead it catches the string of pearls... and when he spins, the string breaks. The priest freezes as the pearls slip off the string. He watches how they hop off the polished floor and roll in his direction. One pearl…

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Walk the Blue Fields

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VeraGru

20 марта 2025 г., 17:54

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... As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, 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…

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Small Things Like These

Клэр Киган

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dandelion_girl

2 февраля 2024 г., 19:33

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‘Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,’ he says. ‘Do you know what the women have a gift for?’ ‘What?’ ‘Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what’s coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.’

Foster

Клэр Киган

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krupatato

29 марта 2023 г., 17:34

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I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

Foster

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virgoslibrary

18 апреля 2023 г., 14:37

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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.

Small Things Like These

Клэр Киган

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krupatato

29 марта 2023 г., 17:29

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Where there's a secret, there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.

Foster

Клэр Киган

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robot

26 апреля 2016 г., 15:09

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Безліч людей стільки всього втратили тільки тому, що не скористалися чудовою нагодою нічого не казати.

Виховання

Клэр Киган

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Подъячева Вера

20 сентября 2023 г., 14:55

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What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over feelings? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?

Small Things Like These

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krupatato

29 марта 2023 г., 17:28

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You don’t ever have to say anything. Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.’

Foster

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krupatato

29 марта 2023 г., 17:26

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I have learned enough, grown enough, to know that what happened is not something I need ever mention.

Foster

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Алекс Кей

3 января 2025 г., 16:39

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'Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down.' She was touching the little pearly buttons on her nightdress, agitated. 'If you want to get on with life, there's things you have to ignore, so you can keep on.'

Small Things Like These

Клэр Киган

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sing_lovely_one

21 декабря 2024 г., 11:06

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I stay awake for as long as I can, then make myself get up and use the chamber pot, but only a dribble comes out. I go back to bed, more than half afraid, and fall asleep. At some point later in the night – it feels much later – the woman comes in. I grow still and breathe as though I have not wakened. I feel the mattress…

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Foster

Claire Keegan

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