Emily

“MAMA: If you choose to ignore what is ugly and what is brutal about this place, you hand your oppressors an extremely powerful weapon – your mind.”
― Catherine Bisset, Placeholder

“MANIAC. Well, the initial inquiry is over, yes, but that wasn’t inquisitive enough, so now there’s an inquiry into that. It’s the British way, of course. Inquiries into inquiries into inquiries for as long as it takes for everyone involved to destroy the evidence and change careers. If God were British, there wouldn’t be a judgement day, they’d be an eternal fucking inquiry.”
― Tom Basden, Accidental Death of An Anarchist

“After 1945, I, too, thought the world was partitioned, once and for all times, into good and evil, but now the world has already fallen apart again and again it's different. It was hardly fathomable, it happened so imperceptibly, now we've come together again just so that it can part once more along the lines of differing opinions and the deeds of differing minds, differing deeds. Do you understand?”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader

“Booby trap. Incendiary device. Gelignite. Nitroglycerine. Petrol bomb. Rubber bullets. Saracen. Internment. The Special Powers Act. Vanguard. The vocabulary of a seven-year-old child now.”
― Louise Kennedy, Trespasses