Micheál Breen

“Take it from me, never wait for happiness to announce itself to you, because chances are it’s already happening.”
― Curtis Garner, Isaac

“Reason rather than faith has been my master … I have felt for some time that this doctrine of mine ill fitted me to be leader of the republican party … nature never fashioned me to be a partisan leader … For the sake of the cause I allowed myself to be put into a position which it is impossible for one of my outlook and personal bias to fill with effect for the party … every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, or even a Bishop, rather than the leader of a revolution.”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

“How did I go from that to nearly dying the sort of silent death you see in a nineteenth-century novel? And yet it’s not. In fact, it’s a very modern American way to die. The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Shockingly, it’s on the rise.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work

“I had given in to his story, his narrative, because it had been easier, and because of his persuasiveness—persuasion, which is only one step removed from coercion.”
― Katie Kitamura, Audition