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“Murder calls were never welcome, but this one had a small silver lining.it was going to get Merlin out of a sticky predicament.”

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Book:Death of an Officer

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“New York. Anton Meyer’s wife had just gone to New Jersey to stay with her sister for a couple of days. For the first time in a while, his day hadn’t ended in an argument and he’d been able to enjoy a good night’s sleep. It was 10 in the morning and Meyer had already dealt efficiently with most of the files on his desk. He had taken a moment to congratulate himself on this when Maurice Kramer appeared at his door. “Daydreaming again, Meyer?” Kramer’s beady eyes glared meanly at him.”

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Book:The French Spy

Source: The French Spy

“But it is a pleasure, isn't it, on a crisp September night in Dublin to walk with long free strides along a quiet street. In the prime of his life. Incumbent on him now to enjoy such fleeting pleasures. Next minute might die. Happens every day to someone.”

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Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...”

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Book:A Familiar Rain

Source: A Familiar Rain

“The troops arrived at the wall together and swept into the village, some through the gates and some through the holes blasted by the artillery. Then the slaughter began as they went from hut to hut, winkling out the defenders at bayonet point. The screaming showed the progress of the individual battles across the village until at last it was quiet.”

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Book:No Road to Khartoum

Source: No Road to Khartoum

“But this was Dublin, the nation's capital. The place of my birth and a city I loved at the heart of a country I loathed. A town filled with good-hearted innocents, miserable bigots, adulterous husbands, conniving churchmen, paupers who received no help from the State, and millionaires who sucked the lifeblood from it.”

Ireland Dublin

Book:The Heart's Invisible Furies

Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.”

Death Cemetery Dublin Mount Jerome

Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“It was as if I had spent thirteen years specialising in a certain language, only to discover all its speakers had scattered and renounced their native tongue. No, worse than that, because at least dead languages could be studied. This was as if I had spent my life learning to play a certain unique instrument, only to see some crazed vandal smash it to pieces.”

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Book:Hood

Source: Hood

“Did you ever hear tell,' said Jimmy Farrell, 'of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin? White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls, and some with full teeth, and some haven't only but one,' and compounded history in the pan of 'an old Dane, maybe, was drowned in the Flood.' My words lick around cobbled quays, go hunting lightly as pampooties over the skull-capped ground. -Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces”

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Book:North

Source: North

“If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic.”

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Author:Nikki Rowe

“When you found someone you really loved, everything fitted.”

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Book:Something From Tiffany’s

Source: Something From Tiffany’s

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