Ciara

“I mean if everybody could waken up tomorrow morning and have the courage of their doubts, not their convictions, the millennium would be here. I think false certainties are what destroy us. And Milligan’s full of them. He’s a walking absolute. What’s murder but a willed absolute, an invented certainty? An existential failure of nerve. What we shouldn’t do is compound the felony in our reaction to it. And that’s what people keep doing. Faced with the enormity, they lose their nerve, and where”
― William McIlvanney, Laidlaw

“He had that basic integrity that is so rare as to be mistaken for altruism.”
― Ken Bruen, The Emerald Lie

“a man who had given his life to a cause, only to find himself left behind.”
― Brian McGilloway, The Nameless Dead