Shadow of a Century Quotes

“you only get one mother, and no matter what the relationship between you, you’ll miss her when she’s gone. You never really get over it, actually.’ Her”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“time”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Life’s too short to have resentment or regret.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Chivalry is all very well and fine, sir, when it comes to carriage doors and matters of little consequence, but it has no place in securing a nation’s freedom.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“... but the thing about hearts, I've come to discover, is that, just like ankles and noses, they heal, even if you don't want them to or think they never will, they do. And someday you wake up and the pain is gone.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“In the end no one wins, isn’t that the truth. No one at all...’ he”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; What if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse – MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. Easter 1916 William Butler Yeats.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century