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“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many and never easy to explain”
― David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife

“I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.”
― David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife

“Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“This place was not like the Victorian Prisons of England with their imposing red-brick and neo-gothic architecture that was supposed to impress inmates with the power of the state;no, this place looked cobbled together, shoddy and temporary and the only thing it impressed upon you was how current British policy on Ireland was dominated by short-term thinking.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“I came to see that Harrison wasn’t my failed prince and I wasn’t in his victim. He hadn’t led me on at all; I’d led myself on.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife