“According to the legends, Christianity first arrived in Ireland on a spring night in AD 433.”
― The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People
― The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Passage
― Passage
“Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth;”
― The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
― The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“The one big difference between John and me, besides the fact that he’s a boy and I’m a girl, is I have compassion.”
― The Pigman
― The Pigman
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.”
― The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
― The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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