Amber Araneae

“A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.”
― Leon Leyson

“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

“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