[...] she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything.
Heacox had disobeyed the first twolaws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.
Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.
Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead?
Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they we...
Dormez bien.’ They
And blown
She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown
Iollan was one of the greatest of the Fianna, the ancient warriors who could visit the Invisible Kingdom whenever they wanted to.
I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare before God that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of An Garda Síochána with fairness, integrity, regard for human rights, diligence and imparti...
Παρίας
All under control. It’s all under control, is it? Four good men have been blown to
Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser
But I’m looking at life from the opposite end of the telescope from you, and everything that once seemed so grand and impressive has all shrunk down to size. I can see now what could have been, but wa...
Well, good luck with that,’ said Katie. ‘I’d better get off home now. I’m starving. I could eat the lamb of Jesus through the rungs of a chair.
They were probably warning the first person to stay well clear until the bomb squad had determined that there wasn’t a second device intended to catch first responders. Next
Katie had visited Belfast many times before, but mostly to the city centre, for meetings with the Crime Operations Department, and she had forgotten how blatant the hostility still was between republi...
In the hoarsely whispered words of Detective Markey, who was sitting close enough for Katie to be able to hear him, he had the face of a bulldog sucking piss from a stinging nettle. At last,
Almost fanatically, began to see another man, and although she still clung on to Williams for his money, it was quite obvious to him that she didn’t love him