I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.