emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could genera…

- Helen Kieran Reilly

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

Time is the measure of that which changes.

- Helen Kieran Reilly

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

- Helen Kieran Reilly