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Sara Baume Quotes

born 1984 Ireland

Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist whose first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Irish Book Award for Newcomer of the Year, and the Kate O'Brien Award. In 2023 she was named on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list.

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I'm looking at the natural world all the time and trying to remind myself of how precious it is, it's still there, and these cycles are still going on. Because I think in ten or twenty years they won't be, things will be very different[.]

Everything he’s learned is from second-hand sources, as opposed to actually being around people and talking to them. He’s a strange man. And we see them all the time. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with their minds other than they’ve just been formed in a certain way.

The Celtic Tiger definitely hurt Ireland from an ecological point of view – and on a societal level it brought out a nasty side of people’s nature, which impacted on the environment in turn – an obsession with property, and with ownership and one upmanship, with wealth and appearances.

The clever rabbits understood that stillness was the simplest form of subterfuge. The stupid rabbits took off. On the undersides of their tails, white handkerchiefs of surrender had been pinned in order to betray them.

Seven Steeples (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sara Baume (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.