Quotes by : Colm Tóibín

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best....

And then you’ll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past.....

His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without....

She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on....

She noticed then that Conor was watching her.'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.'In a while. Why....

For the first time in years, she felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that she was alone here, an....

The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting....

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous....

Well, I didn't really know what to say. So maybe I should say that I have thought about you and I like....

None of them could help her. She had lost all of them. They would not find out about this; she would....