“The whole island is spotted with derelict cottages and abandoned churches like this one. They sit in pastures as invisible to the Irish as a mother is to a teenage girl.”
“Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.”
“When you meet a pretty teenage girl, make a beeline for the mother. I’ve found it to be usually very rewarding.”
“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No.”
“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool. I go to a school for spies.”
“On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!”