Katie McAlister’s Reviews > Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland > Status Update

“… The mourners huddled under their umbrellas as the rain pounded the sodden ground. ‘Sometimes,’ McCann said, ‘we are imprisoned within ideals.”

“If a spy takes fifty lives but saves some larger number, can that countenance his actions? This kind of logic is seductive, but perilous. You start out running numbers in your head, and pretty soon you are sanctioning mass murder.”

“‘I’ll wear no convict’s uniform/ Nor meekly serve my time/ That Britain might/ Brand Ireland’s fight / Eight hundred years of crime’”