You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, "Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability?

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.