Clergyman's

You know how vivid things are in extremis. There's something going on in the brain. Chemicals. They make the moment indelible.
- Bernard MacLaverty

When they finally got into the foyer there were some enlarged black and white photographs. Anne in her school playground before the war. Anne in the street with friends. Anne at a desk, writing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

How can something be utterly simple and amazingly complex at the same time? Things are simple or complex according to how much attention is paid to them.
- Bernard MacLaverty

When they finally got into the foyer there were some enlarged black and white photographs. Anne in her school playground before the war. Anne in the street with friends. Anne at a desk, writing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

How can something be utterly simple and amazingly complex at the same time? Things are simple or complex according to how much attention is paid to them.
- Bernard MacLaverty

When they finally got into the foyer there were some enlarged black and white photographs. Anne in her school playground before the war. Anne in the street with friends. Anne at a desk, writing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

How can something be utterly simple and amazingly complex at the same time? Things are simple or complex according to how much attention is paid to them.
- Bernard MacLaverty

When they finally got into the foyer there were some enlarged black and white photographs. Anne in her school playground before the war. Anne in the street with friends. Anne at a desk, writing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

How can something be utterly simple and amazingly complex at the same time? Things are simple or complex according to how much attention is paid to them.
- Bernard MacLaverty

In a Portstewart guest house her father liked to play tricks when he had eaten his egg. He would put the shell upside down in someone else's eggcup. The McKennas would sit and watch the next person lift a spoon and cave in the top of the hollow egg.
- Bernard MacLaverty