Maria

“It's good to be a little lonely. It reminds you of the importance of other people. A person too comfortable in loneliness loses touch with the wonderful things. Laughing alone in a room should always be tinged with a bit of sadness. But a little bit of loneliness serves another purpose, too. It's a good reminder of the small piece of land that is your self.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

“Anyone who says that if you do things a certain way you'll be guaranteed happiness is selling you something. No one knows their own destiny in advance.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator. Should the state be accorded more leniency because, legally speaking, it has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force? Or, conversely, should we hold soldiers and cops to a higher standard than paramilitaries?”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“if you could just get people to talk, he believed, the most bitter antagonists could discover common ground.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland