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

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.

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?

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

Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.

Beautiful is who you are

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.

I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!