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“Colonel Woodcock obviously belonged to the 'stiff upper lip' school of army behaviour: after shouting at his wife to keep watching at the window, he got shot himself and staggered back into the bedroom, telling her, 'It's alright darling, they have only hit outlying portions of me.' Woodcock, in fact, had been hit four times - but he subsequently recovered.”
― Tim Pat Coogan, The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad and Ireland's Fight for Freedom

“Some fresh air, some perspective. You wonder why you’re anxious when you constantly stare at a device that beams nightmares into your eyes.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“When a woman is ‘too much’, she is essentially uncontrollable and unashamed. That makes her dangerous.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

“That’s what the mid-thirties should be about, after all: constant self-interrogation. Acquiring the courage to change what you can, and the therapist to accept what you can’t. What”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults