Elinor Walters

“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“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