Quotes by Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

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“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and pla...”
— Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
anchoring attachment belonging country

“-Nobody can force you to smile, she says. -What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room. -They can make you show your teeth, b...”
— Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
honesty smile true

“One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboard box with God sitting outside surrounded by light, but I wanted to know if maybe God was sitting...”
— Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
god infinity universe