Alex Rousou

“The bomb exploded, killing five people, but not Thatcher. The IRA issued a statement, eloquently capturing the strategic advantage of terrorism: ‘Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“...the downside of contesting something everyone believes to be true is that the value of anything you say starts to depreciate”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“Do you know what irony is, de León?”
“They make swords out of it, don’t they? Mix it with coally and hit it with a hammery?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“The Commons then made their customary request for freedom of speech as well as liberty from arrest. She granted the request with the significant comment that 'wit and speech were calculated to do harm, and their liberty of speech extended no further than "ay" or "no".”
― Peter Ackroyd, Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I