Micheál Breen

“Batt O’Connor, who was close to Collins, referred to the women ‘mudslinging and name calling and spitting and frothing to the mouth like angry cats … I think the Irish people will not be in a hurry again to elect women to represent them.’19”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Oh”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“She made him feel safe and calm. He thought about everything she must have sacrificed to make sure he grew up into a happy person. Except he wasn’t happy, which made him feel like he’d failed her. After the years of her working and studying, of worrying about how he was being treated at school or wondering why he was being distant and evasive with her, he’d ended up miserable anyway. He felt overwhelmed with love for her, undeserving of her.”
― Curtis Garner, Isaac