David J. Oldman > Quotes

“According to Father O’Dowd’s description, the seminary catered to both ends of the religious life, training the next crop of young men taking holy orders and providing a retirement home for those closer to discovering if they’d backed the right horse.”
― David J. Oldman, The Unquiet Grave

“It’s a cliché——but still also a truism——that the victor writes the history; but he also convenes the court——or erects the scaffold, or merely find a convenient wall to stand his victims against.”
― David J. Oldman, The Unquiet Grave