Colm Tóibín: The Empty Family

We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she lay awake in the hospital those last few nights of her life: we had used up all of our time.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family

“Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Master

“She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live.”
― Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster

“The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were with me.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary