“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.”
― The Great Unexpected
― The Great Unexpected
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.”
― Wear Black
― Wear Black
“Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned.”
― What Happens in Ireland
― What Happens in Ireland
“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
― The Hawk and the Dove
― The Hawk and the Dove
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