Neil Jordan

“I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes”

“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”

“I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.”

“Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.”

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”