Allan McDougall

“Used to say there was four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“They apprehended it in the imagination, and feared the evil of it more than they feared death, as though its uncleanness, its taint, its corruption, would not only destroy and rot the body but pursue the living quick beyond the grave itself. Their instinct of recoil was an instinct of pure horror.”
― Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings

“heritage swallowed by silence.”
― Malachy Tallack, That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz

“There are pockmarks where the bullets went through. It’s said their blood was the first graffiti to paint the walls. Blood is the strongest ink. You can’t erase what’s written in blood, ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead