Eimear McBride Quotes & Sayings

I am tired. Too full of stuff I've done. Where my legs hurt where my scalp hurts. I'll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to. — Eimear McBride

Just dandelion leaves trod all down his path with this going away and the coming back. Some great ending it feels like. For now though, just go through his broke door. — Eimear McBride

And they clapped they loved they worshipped him. I picked up sticks out of my hair. Dirt up off my tongue. I felt the loving smears go in. The loving blood. I felt water rushing in my brain. I dead the heart. I am for you alone. — Eimear McBride

We were moving off now. From each other. As cannot be. Helped. I didn't want it from that time on. You know. All that. When you said sit with me on the school bus. I said no. That inside world had caught alight and what I wanted. To be left alone. To look at it. To swing the torch into every corner of what he'd we'd done. Know it and wonder what does it mean. I learned to turn it off, the world that was not my own. Stop up my ears and everything. Who are you? You and me were never this. This boy and girl that do not speak. But somehow I've left you behind and you're just looking on. — Eimear McBride

Hurt me. Until I am outside pain. — Eimear McBride

You'll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she'll wear your say. — Eimear McBride

Board my body up. I'm not for loving. Anymore. — Eimear McBride

Right now. Next now. What I'll be? — Eimear McBride

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

Life makes itself with little heed for the appropriate ( p 136). — Eimear McBride

For all of that I wanted to be out of it. All of that. You wanted to be in. — Eimear McBride

See. My one act. I might be a person. Beneath the. — Eimear McBride