I'm three years off Irish legal age, six off American drinking age. Yet that's no object, if I wanted alcohol my friends have plenty, and often actually seem quite determined to get me drunk, so I could. I just don't want to.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller