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“He wishes he saw her more often, but friendship in London means bumping into each other once or twice a year, saying you need to hang out more, and never doing anything about it.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“Like so much of life, the full import of someone's words is often only revealed many years later, by which time that person has already slipped into the past.”
― Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

“He thinks of himself as a good communicator. He thinks of himself as having transcended the stereotype of men as being unable to describe their feelings. But around his family he becomes the most repressed of all, like the sad old patriarchs who were brought up to believe that the strength of society relies on their continued silence.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“Perhaps that is the most powerful form of repression. When you can't say anything or you don't feel any more. Not because there is some external power or rule preventing you. But because there is something in yourself that prevents you. That makes you both the prison and the prisoner.”
― Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square