Elinor Walters

“A few weeks later, in Parliament, Daniel O’Connell read a list of the provisions Ireland had exported to Britain during the scarcity year of 1845: two hundred thousand head of livestock, two million quarters of grain, and several hundred million pounds of flour. Should Britain fail to display generosity in the present circumstance, said O’Connell, her failure would become eternally lodged in the deepest ventricle of Irish memory. “There are five millions of people … on the verge of starvation … and I am speaking from the depth of my conviction when I [say] that … I believe the result of neglect … in the present instance will be death to an enormous amount.”
― John Kelly, The Graves are Walking

“Are you OLD?"
"No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In