“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

“Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing”

“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.”

“You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.”

“I just want it to go back to the way it was."
"It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.”