‘Like all of my friends, she’s a lousy judge of character…’

The Things That Really Matter
‘Like all of my friends, she’s a lousy judge of character…’
‘We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive…’
‘I’d far rather be happy than right any day…’
‘With the slightest push—in just the right place—the world can be tipped…’
Welsh’s third collection of short stories…
‘The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces…’
‘When you have something to say, silence is a lie…’
‘Madness, as we call it, manifests itself in many ways…’
‘If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it…’