Amber Araneae

“My father talks about people dying on coffin ships going to America and my mother talks about people dying on trains going to Poland. My father says our people died in the famine and my mother says those who died under the Nazis are our people, too. Everybody has things they can't forget.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

“Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

“If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.”
― Palle Oswald

“...Dead people have the best conversations of all. Lots of people don't really speak until they're dead, because only then can they say all the things to each other in the graveyard that they have been keeping a secret all their lives.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood