Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Francesca 

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.

Emma Hak-Kovacs

Lotte Tielemans

Helen 

Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?

Was there any point in being alive without helping one another?

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Coley T

Before long, he caught a hold of himself and concluded that nothing ever did happen again; to each was given days and chances which wouldn't come back around. And wasn't it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.

Amalie Elisabeth

She had finished with the shirts and blouses and was starting on the pillowcases. Always, she tackled the hardest things first.

Not for the first time, Furlong felt that he was poor company for her, that he seldom made a long night shorter. 

How still it was up here but why was it not ever peaceful?

So many things had a way of looking finer, when they were not so close. 

When he let down the tail board and went to open the coal house door, the bolt was stiff with frost, and he had to ask himself if he had not turned into a man consigned to doorways, for did he not spend the best part of his life standing outside of one or another, waiting for them to be opened.

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