Quotes From "Days Without End" By Sebastian Barry

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I guess love laughs at history a little. Sebastian Barry
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But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view. Sebastian Barry
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With ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying Sebastian Barry
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Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too. Sebastian Barry
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His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man. Sebastian Barry
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The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. Sebastian Barry
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Men so sick they are dying of death. Sebastian Barry
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In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my right hand. We listen to the cries of the night revellers outside and hear the horses tramping along the ways. We're holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might be in the unknown realm where lovers act as lovers without concealment. Sebastian Barry
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It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”. Sebastian Barry
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This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles. Sebastian Barry