“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”

Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah

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Irish writer and journalist 1965

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