Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.