Heike

“When Gods go to war, it is no small thing.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“Think of the armed struggle as the launch of a boat, Hughes said, getting a hundred people to push this boat out. This boat is stuck in the sand, right, and then get them to push the boat out and then the boat sailing off and leaving the hundred people behind, right. That’s the way I feel. The boat is away, sailing on the high seas, with all the luxuries that it brings, and the poor people that launched the boat are left sitting in the muck and the dirt and the shit and the sand, behind.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“We are the Bloodsworn, closer than kin. A brotherhood, a sisterhood: we live and die together.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“They say that you can never go back—and that’s true. We change and so the places we return to will not seem the same.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn