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"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."

"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

"Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely."

"Where they come in the perpetual spirit of giving - the house that love built."

"When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone."

"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community."

"Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."


"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."


"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"


"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."


"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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