Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.

My passion is to keep my clients permanently satisfied with the quality of my work

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

I am in my life for a purpose. There is no place to rush to. I am safe. It's all ok.

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.