Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.