History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.
It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.
Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.