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Northern Spy QUOTES

Northern Spy QUOTES

1 " The state uses political violence every day, they only call it terrorism when the poor use it. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

2 " I recently read a scientific paper that said that murder victims, before they die, are flooded with serotonin, oxytocin, hormones that create a sense of euphoria as the body tries to protect itself from the knowledge of what’s happening. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

3 " Some people are more unacceptable as victims than others. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

4 " recipe calls for six sweet, firm apples, like Honeycrisp, Pippin, or Northern Spy. I stop short, suddenly self-conscious, like someone is at the window, watching my reaction to those two words. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

5 " different from Marian, like one of us must have betrayed the other for our circumstances to have diverged so much. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

6 " The baby’s needs fill the rooms like water. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

7 " Lavery’s. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

8 " will be difficult for her to adopt while Northern Ireland is a conflict zone. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

9 " Those six months of maternity leave were dense, elemental. Returning to work, I felt like Rip Van Winkle, like I’d woken after decades, except no one else had aged. Nothing at the office has changed, and I have to act like I haven’t either. If I seem distracted or tired, slower than before, my bosses might decide that someone without a baby, or at least not a single mother, would manage the job better. So I pretend to be well rested and focused, despite sleeping in four-hour increments at night, despite several times a day missing Finn so much it hurts to breathe. In "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

10 " can’t move ahead of him, and I don’t need to, either. He practiced how to crawl and to walk on his own. My job, it seems, is to follow him, without any hesitation or regret. "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

11 " Belfast confetti, "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy

12 " single-lane swimming pool under their house, "

― Flynn Berry , Northern Spy