“My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.”

“Since Irelands independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.”

“The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”

“But, of course, you might be asking yourself, 'Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don't know! I still don't know what it is! I'm too knackered and confused to work it out. That curtain pole really ...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”