Ireland Quote by Colum McCann

“The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had…

— Jack London

“On that day, in jungle hamlets and mountain villages, in cacophonous slums and sprawling refugee camps, on worn concrete floors and under roofs thatched…

— Adam Fifield

“They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the morning cold. They pushed the horses into a…

— Cormac McCarthy

“...the wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died…

— George R.R. Martin

“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.”

— Nalini Singh

“The field was empty now. The grasses had been laid flat by more than one game played there, but in the center of it…

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“At the edge of the lot, wildflowers had taken over, forming a thick border. I stopped to pick a bouquet of gold buttercups and…

— Mary Simses

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were…

— A.S. Byatt

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes