“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

“There was gaps in his thinking.”

“Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance”

“You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

“Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.”

“This flu thing’s out of control,” Grady said, pointing his fork at the TV. “There’s talk of them doing quarantines.”“Quarantines?”“Yeah, like going into towns where infection rates are high and locking the place down. That sort of thing.”Ciaran laughed. “You watch too much sci-fi, mate…”