“I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Ellis Fiorello.”— Nick Hornby, Eilis Lacey, Saoirse Ronan, imdb.com
“Ellis: I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland. Father Flood: Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It will pass.”— Nick Hornby, Eilis Lacey, Saoirse Ronan, imdb.com
“Patty: There. That's better. Now you don't look like you've just come in from milking the cows. Ellis: Is that what I looked like? Patty: Just a bit. Nice clean cows. Let's go.”— Nick Hornby, Eilis Lacey, Saoirse Ronan, imdb.com
“[instructing new immigrant] You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out—you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that…”— Nick Hornby, Eilis Lacey, Saoirse Ronan, imdb.com