Quotes of Flynn Berry

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“The state uses political violence every day, they only call it terrorism when the poor use it.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“Flynn Berry wrote that you should never use the word “opportunity.” It’s not an opportunity, it’s an obligation. I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.” ― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“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
“He stares back at me, amused, and I think the disguise hasn't convinced him, but he probably does this to all women--journalists, prosecutors, judges--a stripping-down, an assessment. Their reserve and competence don't fool him. He knows what they're like. He knows what they look and sound like when they're scared.” ― Flynn Berry, Under the Harrow
“The baby’s needs fill the rooms like water.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“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
“On top of the courthouse is a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a sword and a pair of scales. The blindfold makes her look like she is about to be executed.” ― Flynn Berry, Under the Harrow
“Some people are more unacceptable as victims than others.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“I don't know how to survive the hours until I can sleep.” ― Flynn Berry, Under the Harrow
“Where would a violent man go, where would a monster go. It was hard to know what someone who liked hurting women would also like.” ― Flynn Berry, Under the Harrow
“cherry berry scones for them fresh out of the oven.” ― Erin R. Flynn, Rough Beginnings
“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
“However, according to Dennis Montgomery, when the BlackBerry phones are used on “THE HAMMER” platform they are a closed secret network that is encrypted and secure and cannot be penetrated.” ― Mary Fanning, THE HAMMER is the Key to the Coup "The Political Crime of the Century": How Obama, Brennan, Clapper, and the CIA spied on President Trump, General Flynn ... and everyone else
“It was good to be so scared. The ocean was very large, as was the universe. Which contained the ocean. And the oceans on other planets, and other planets. The fear made the domestic rituals better. The almond croissant, the detective novel, the outdoor shower. Here I am, I thought, taking an outdoor shower in the universe. While we were here, I wanted to stay forever, but I was also already thinking of leaving. Always biding and always going, always at the exact same time.” ― Flynn Berry, Under the Harrow
“different from Marian, like one of us must have betrayed the other for our circumstances to have diverged so much.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“Lavery’s.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“only person watching them. She’d noticed that before with Colin. At large dinners, people a few seats down would stop eating and lean over to listen to him. Colin left James, and a moment later he appeared beside her with a bottle of wine and glasses for her and her father. He kissed Faye, checked his watch, and said, “When can we ask them all to leave?” “Well,” said Deborah, once the guests were gone. “That was a success.” She had arranged for them to borrow her friend’s house in Provence for their honeymoon. “Actually,” Faye had said, “we’re going to India.” And on their honeymoon a week later, in a coracle spinning on a river in Hampi, Faye gripped the straw edges of the boat and she laughed and laughed and laughed. — AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED, my parents often went on trips abroad with his friends, to rented villas in France, Sardinia, Mallorca. I visited the one in Mallorca when I was twenty-two, after saving for months to buy the ticket. I went in September, when the villa where they’d stayed was empty. A sign for a security system was posted” ― Flynn Berry, A Double Life
“will be difficult for her to adopt while Northern Ireland is a conflict zone.” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
“Belfast confetti,” ― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy
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Flynn Berry

Flynn Berry is the author of A Double Life, which will be published in July 2018, and Under the Harrow, which won the Edgar Award for best first novel. Under the Harrow has been translated into sixteen languages and was optioned for television by Paramount. F…

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