The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward…

- Jamie O'Neill

Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong …

- Jamie O'Neill

It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would sh…

- Jamie O'Neill

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

- Jamie O'Neill

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

- Jamie O'Neill

It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

- Jamie O'Neill

I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d car…

- Jamie O'Neill

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

- Jamie O'Neill