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“Think of the armed struggle as the launch of a boat, Hughes said, getting a hundred people to push this boat out. This boat is stuck in the sand, right, and then get them to push the boat out and then the boat sailing off and leaving the hundred people behind, right. That’s the way I feel. The boat is away, sailing on the high seas, with all the luxuries that it brings, and the poor people that launched the boat are left sitting in the muck and the dirt and the shit and the sand, behind.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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“We are the Bloodsworn, closer than kin. A brotherhood, a sisterhood: we live and die together.”
― The Shadow of the Gods
― The Shadow of the Gods
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“This is not a choice between life and death, but life and immortality! Remain here and die in obscurity, or follow me now and live forever!”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
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“All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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“Fight me if you wish, but know this, I am old for a reason”
― A Time of Dread
― A Time of Dread
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