“Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.”

“You’re going to break my heart, Sparrow Fisher.” And I think, Not before you break mine.”

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

“Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.”

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

“What happens when someone breaks your heart? When someone breaks your heart, first you are shocked. Someone will say you are heartbroken and you examine the words break and heart and heartbroken and you immediately decide that it's inaccurate. You feel pain in the region of your heart and you think it's your heart breaking but one's heart doesn't really break, something else does - faith. You stop believing.”