There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Jena shook her head. “Paul needs a life.” “Paul needs a woman, ” Ceelie said.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

I had a whole bag full. And I still felt like I didn't have enough! Definitely more bikinis then you have days of vacation.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.