Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.