But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places wher…

- Philip O Ceallaigh

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer m…

- Philip O Ceallaigh

Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

- Philip O Ceallaigh

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

- Philip O Ceallaigh

In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evid…

- Philip O Ceallaigh

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less tha…

- Philip O Ceallaigh