“BE HEARD! BE STRONG! BE PROUD! I WANNA MAKE SOME NOISE!”

“You can't shake me. I'm not going nowhere.”

“I'm forever yours, temporarily.”

“Never ask why something happened. Just live with it.”

“…included in this grief were the hidden rooms of his life. He told me that hurt was bad enough and that I should never add loneliness to it. That’s why we get together and dance, he said… we got together and moved our bodies because it exorcised our pain.”

“That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!”

“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.”