Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.