Lucia Sobekova

“She holds his gaze but doesn’t smile back. The priest says that love isn’t a feeling. It’s not the butterflies in your tummy you get in the giddy early days of a relationship. The butterflies don’t last, he says. Love is something you deliberately decide to do through repeated actions of care. Love is something you make.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“He's grieving for the dad he could have been, and the dad he never had, and the dad that he DID have, and his ten-year relationship, and his life in London, and his entire sense of identity. Ed is grieving for so many versions of himself that it's hard to look at the Ed that does exist...”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“Valerie knows how it feels to move through life's motions, responding to events as they happen, and then, one day, without intention, you've found yourself miles from where you started, with no way to return.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“With Ed, she could simply unfurl. She still can. In all other parts of her life, she's a performer.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends