“My mother buried three husbands...and two of them were only napping.”

“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.”

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

“It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.”

“On a Tuesday they were wedAnd by Friday they were deadAnd they buried them in the churchyard side by side,Oh, my love,And they buried them in the churchyard side by side. ”

“My mother sold my virginity for two thousand dollars when I was thirteen but my sister bought it back for three thousand dollars that she borrowed from the massage parlour.My virginity was the only available asset that my mother had left, that she could sell.[MMT]”