Amber Araneae

“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

“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