Audrey Magee > Quotes

“Bless me, Father, said Francis, for I pushed the Englishman off the cliff. One Hail Mary, said Micheál. Bless me, Father, for I have pushed the Frenchman off the cliff. One Our Father. Two Hail Marys.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Will you stay in Germany?'
'No. Somewhere different.'
'Like where?'
'Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.”
― Audrey Magee, The Undertaking

“It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.”
― Audrey Magee, The Undertaking

“You don't need the help of politicians to be a good teacher, Peter.”
― Audrey Magee, The Undertaking

“Irish became a second-class language, stirring a quiet linguistic civil war that, like the religious divide, lives on in modern Ireland.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Truth is elusive when money is in the room.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Irish in time became the language of the peasants, of the impoverished, of the uneducated.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony