“Of course there is such thing as a second chance,” went on Domenica, “We may waste our first trip to Italy, but that doesn’t mean that we need waste our second.”

More from The Importance of Being Seven (2012)

• “But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?”
• Up through the water came a large trout; a flash of silver; a dart of light; the fulfillment of a small boy’s dream.