5 Quotes by Bernard MacLaverty

What was love but a lifetime of conversations. And silences. Knowing when to be silent. Above all, knowing when to laugh.

Every time I open my glasses case nowadays,’ he said. ‘I am pleasantly surprised to find my glasses.

He believed that everything and everybody in the world was worthy of notice but this person beside him was something beyond that. To him her presence was as important as the world. And the stars around it. If she was an instance of the goodness in this world then passing through by her was miracle enough.

The heart never taking a break. The bowels never taking a nap. When it stopped, that was the day it was all over.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, and so on and so on.