main quotes

• 'separate beds'
• 'remembers the cries'
• 'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows'
• 'I miss most...his touch'
• 'Home, home'
• 'Shedding skin like a snake'
• 'I say her phrases to myself'
• 'homesick, free'
• 'in love with the way my mother speaks'
• Home again to ordinary pain, 
• The women who married a fool
• I lie thinking about her for a while
• And its one up for ireland 
• "I am happy and sad"
• "I want our own country."
• I am happy and sad
• I want our own country
• I lost a river….right place
• Mrs tilscher loved you