The Colony Quotes

“Bless me, Father, said Francis, for I pushed the Englishman off the cliff. One Hail Mary, said Micheál. Bless me, Father, for I have pushed the Frenchman off the cliff. One Our Father. Two Hail Marys.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“You’ve been drawing the islanders. I have. Going to Mass. You said you wouldn’t. Did I? I forgot. It didn’t take you long, Mr Lloyd. What didn’t? To forget.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Irish in time became the language of the peasants, of the impoverished, of the uneducated.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Irish became a second-class language, stirring a quiet linguistic civil war that, like the religious divide, lives on in modern Ireland.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony

“Truth is elusive when money is in the room.”
― Audrey Magee, The Colony