Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Neil Jordan

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Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.

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I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Neil Jordan

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I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes

Neil Jordan

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I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Neil Jordan

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I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

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Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

Neil Jordan

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A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

Neil Jordan

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You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

Neil Jordan

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