“I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”
“In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”
“The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.”
“Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?”
“Then yesterday, in the dim watches of the night a dream came to me. A voice spoke and said: 'Love beyond price is yours. Take and cherish it, lest this priceless gift be withdrawn!' I awoke, happy, myself once more, grateful that life could come to me again.”
“What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?”