Love not often, but forever.

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

A named thing is a tamed thing.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.