Quotes by Nuala O'Faolain

“I live a non-journalists life. I look for the texture of ordinary things”

“Nothing could better show that May had a big idea of herself. It makes her more American than Irish even before she steps aboard - that belief in abundance, that confidence that, when this money is spent, thered be more money.”

“This or that ideologue goes to great pains to deny women like May a common humanity with the rest of us. She was excluded from every community. She was thrown out of memory. Well, I want her back in, and I want her such as she was.”

...friendship is something you do.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.