Northern Spy Quotes

“The state uses political violence every day, they only call it terrorism when the poor use it.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“It’s not exactly, or not entirely, that I want to stay at home with Finn all day. It’s more that I want to feel, with him, as acute and competent as I do at work, and at work, as receptive and absorbed as I do with him.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“Some people are more unacceptable as victims than others.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“The baby’s needs fill the rooms like water.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“can’t move ahead of him, and I don’t need to, either. He practiced how to crawl and to walk on his own. My job, it seems, is to follow him, without any hesitation or regret.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“I recently read a scientific paper that said that murder victims, before they die, are flooded with serotonin, oxytocin, hormones that create a sense of euphoria as the body tries to protect itself from the knowledge of what’s happening.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“These people have quite a lot of power,” he says. “The least they can do is explain themselves.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“single-lane swimming pool under their house,”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“will be difficult for her to adopt while Northern Ireland is a conflict zone.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“Those six months of maternity leave were dense, elemental. Returning to work, I felt like Rip Van Winkle, like I’d woken after decades, except no one else had aged. Nothing at the office has changed, and I have to act like I haven’t either. If I seem distracted or tired, slower than before, my bosses might decide that someone without a baby, or at least not a single mother, would manage the job better. So I pretend to be well rested and focused, despite sleeping in four-hour increments at night, despite several times a day missing Finn so much it hurts to breathe. In”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“recipe calls for six sweet, firm apples, like Honeycrisp, Pippin, or Northern Spy. I stop short, suddenly self-conscious, like someone is at the window, watching my reaction to those two words.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“different from Marian, like one of us must have betrayed the other for our circumstances to have diverged so much.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“Belfast confetti,”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

“Lavery’s.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy