Clergyman's

What about you?""
""I would like to see a united Ireland, but I haven't decided the best way to go about it yet.""
""I feel sorry for it.""
""What?""
""Ireland. It's like a child. It's only concerned with the past and the present. The future has ceased to exist for it.
- Bernard MacLaverty

There's not much money - if that's what you mean.""
""Approximately.""
""Once all the debts are paid there will be very little.""
""Nevertheless. Every little helps. The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather.
- Bernard MacLaverty

There's not much money - if that's what you mean.""
""Approximately.""
""Once all the debts are paid there will be very little.""
""Nevertheless. Every little helps. The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Love is a very strange idea. I never know what it is. When you were young it seemed to be all intensity and no opportunity. Later when you did get the opportunity the fire had gone out of it.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Love is a very strange idea. I never know what it is. When you were young it seemed to be all intensity and no opportunity. Later when you did get the opportunity the fire had gone out of it.
- Bernard MacLaverty

He wanted to pray but couldn't because he no longer believed. Prayer was just an intense wishing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

He wanted to pray but couldn't because he no longer believed. Prayer was just an intense wishing.
- Bernard MacLaverty

You sit down to your desk and listen to what's inside your head. Things appear suddenly and unexpectedly. I don't mean it's like inspiration or anything like that but, put it this way, you are there with a 3B pencil in your hand should you hear anything good. If you are in a notion of working, the idea takes root and won't let you go. It puts out twigs and branches. These twigs get leaves and thorns and maybe, if you are lucky, blossoms. And fruit. The worst thing that can happen at a time like this is an interruption. When the interruption is over it's very hard to get the same momentum going again.
- Bernard MacLaverty

It's all going far too well,"" said Gerry. ""A bad omen.
- Bernard MacLaverty