“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”
“Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.”
“The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed”
“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”