I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to k — Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to k — Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to k — Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to k — Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to k — Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
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I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?

— Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
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