We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... W…

- Eamon Duffy

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

- Eamon Duffy

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

- Eamon Duffy

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

- Eamon Duffy