Amber Araneae

“They speak like that because they're afraid of the Irish language coming back and killing everybody in the country this time. He [my father] says Irish people drink too much and talk too much and don't want to speak Irish, because it stinks of poverty and dead people left lying in the fields. That's why they speak posh English and pretend that nothing ever happened.”
― 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

“I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun

“Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.”
― Katherine Pine, Poisoned