„You’ve come to give me a piece of your mind,“ I repeated, looking at her. „That phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body, you know. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it… well, thank you, Elizabeth. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love. There’s another funny thing. But a piece of your mind… what a gift that would be.“
„What are you going to tell him when absolutely nothing he wishes for comes true?“
„How do you know it won’t come true?“
„I have common sense. Something which you seem to be lacking.“
„You’re right, I don’t have common sense. I don’t want to believe what every one else believes. I have my own thoughts, things that weren’t taught to me or things that I didn’t read in a book. I learn from experiece- you, you are afraid to experience anything and so you will always have your common sense and only your common sense.“
„Well, there’s one good thing about leaving a small town. They all miss you when you’re gone. They all notice it.“
„You know, the more you try to simplify things, Elizabeth, the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself, and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.“
When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When window shatters, a table leg breaks, or when a picture falls off the wall in makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it’s completely silent. You would think as it’s so important it would make the loudest noise in a whole world, or even have some sort of seremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it’s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
If there is a noise,it’s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It thrashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea; it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been takes. That’s what it looks liek and that’s what it sounds like, a trashing, panicking, trapped great big beast, roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that’s the thing about love- no one is untouchable. It’s a wild as that, as ras as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it’s silent. You’re just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it.
„I used to hate this town. I used to hate every single blade of grass on every hill, but he taught me so much. He taught me that it’s not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It’s not Baile na gCroithe’s fault that I don’t feel I fit in. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world because it’s about where you up here,“ she touched the side of her head lightly. „ It’s about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination and memories. I’m happy up here,“ she tapped her temple again and smiled,“ and because of that I’m happy up here too.“ She held out her arms and displayed the couuntryside around her. She closed her eyes and allowe the wind to dry her tears. Her face softer when she turned to Benjamin. „I just thought it was important for you of all people to know that.“