But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

The world will never know you because you did not cross the limits of yourself

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Everything is blood and vines. The mark of another day of revolving the body exact And the sky is ours our hope our blue our silence our throat of burning wildflowers.

Only the good die young, the bad petite-mort

I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

The universe is a put-up job.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.