Amber Araneae

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

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

“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

“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