Michael Collins

“I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time.”
― Julia Gillard, My Story

“The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.”
― Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

“He wondered if they’d made the Australian lesbian vampire murders into a movie yet.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“But troubles far more menacing than sodomy threatened Japan.”
― Brett L. Walker, A Concise History of Japan