Cara

“On one occasion, according to an old legend, Grace saved her father’s life when she leaped on the back of an English sailor who was wielding a knife, heading toward her father with a weapon drawn.”
― History Nerds, Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland

“I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it.—These, oh Govinda, are some of the thoughts which have come into my mind.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Grainne was often called by her Anglicized name, Grace. Once the Normans and the English had come, she also used the Anglicized version of the clan name, “O’Malley.”
― History Nerds, Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland

“He nodded and lifted his head to meet my gaze. “Yep. A bit.” Then he stared up at the building. “My best friend lives here, actually. It’s a small world.” I shrugged. There were hundreds of units in this complex. “Well, next time you’re here visiting him, come by.”
― Lexie Miers, My Dad's Billionaire Best-Friend