10 Quotes by Caitriona Lally

My lone silence has the quality of marshmallows, padded with sugary dough, but other people's silence is punctured with pointy, jagged blades.

Summer has landed overnight, and the street is full of arms and legs that are not usually seen; they seem detached from their owners like so many piles of limbs in the death scene of a war film.

Her voice sounds like it's under the sea already, and when I look at her face, it's full of bliss and waves.

I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.

If hobbits live in Middle Earth, then every third person in Middle Third should be a hobbit.

My ears have been saturated with other people’s works recently; today I will hear only my own.

I like that the makers of Arabic didn’t insist upon a ‘U’ after a ‘Q’: ‘Muhaqqaq’ looks fearless, undaunted, unencumbered by ‘U’s.

I WANT A friend called Penelope. When I know her well enough, I’ll ask her why she doesn’t rhyme with antelope.

My lone silence has the quality of marshmallows, padded with sugary dough, but other people’s silence is punctured with pointy, jagged blades.