“My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said our world. He always said your world. But he called Dublin his city. Merely because hed been in it so long? Or had...”

“If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?”

“It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”

“Strength wasnt about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

“I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”