“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”
“Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.”
“I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.”
“If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
“When you love with all you are, it isn't unhappiness alone you risk. It's heaven, too.”
“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”
“…the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world.”
“We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan."
"And as able to make something strong between us.”
“Did people never fall in love with anyone who was eager to return in?”
“The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind.”
“Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees.”
“upon that bottle you made me”
“inside her. So different from an”
“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
“Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.”
“I elbow him. “You’re such a pig.”
He grins. “I’m not a pig, I’m a guy—which, now that I think about it, is pretty much the same thing. Point taken.”
“The Key lime pie is very simple to make. First you line a 9-inch pie plate with a graham cracker crust. Then beat 6 egg yolks. Add I cup lime juice (even bottled lime juice will do), two 14-ounce cans sweetened condensed milk, and I tablespoon grated lime rind. Pour into the pie shell and freeze. Remove from freezer and spread with whipped cream. Let sit five minutes before serving.”
“She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.”
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