“We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?”
― 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War
― 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War
“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
“I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”
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“She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
“She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
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