“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

“Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish.”

“You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?"-Adam to Gabrielle”

“Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.”

“I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.”

“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

“As he fills me I wonder if – in the same way that sex makes its own unique perfume – we don’t really “make” love. As in create, manufacture, evoke an independent element in the air around us, and if enough of us did it really well, for real, not just for the hell of it, we could change the world.”