Maria

“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

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“Maybe her method of protest is just not participating. Maybe there's something quietly revolutionary in not longing to be beautiful.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer