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October 19 - October 27, 2025
Ibrahim told me I must never tell people Alan’s name in the park because they can use the information to steal your password. I said that I don’t use Alan’s name in any of my passwords, but he was insistent.
Trouble is much like love: when the time is ready, it will find you.
There are now more vegan cafés in Fairhaven than there are non-vegan cafés, but, relentless though the gentrification of the town is, Connie is delighted that the demand for cocaine remains robust.
If you find your own way somewhere, you can go back whenever you choose.
What she really needs is a Tinder for criminals. Everyone could use their most recent mugshot.
“The pain is temporary, but the lesson the pain teaches you is forever.”
Collapse on a bathroom floor after a wedding and that can be quirky and charming; collapse on a bathroom floor every Friday night, and you’d soon find there’s no one around to cook you breakfast and pull up your trousers.
“When old friends die, you’re furious, because you’ve never quite finished what you were saying to them.”
If you can’t afford to pay your staff proper wages, you’re cheating. You’re not making an honest living. You’re stealing.
“What happened” is never what defines you in life; “What you did next” is what defines you.
He keeps finding pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but no one will show him the picture on the front of the box. Kendrick likes information, and at the moment he doesn’t have enough of it.
what sort of thing are you in charge of?” Bogdan shrugs. “The bins, I suppose. And being in love with her.”
“About death,” says Elizabeth. “Take every word anyone has ever written about grief. Every line every poet has ever written. Every word of every friend who breaks down in front of you, every tear you’ve ever seen shed. Take the whole lot of them and throw them down a well, and you wouldn’t even hear them hit the bottom.”
“No more lies,” says Joanna. “Big or small. Always the truth, except for surprise parties or presents; or, if there’s a TV show you’ve seen that I want to watch, you have to pretend you haven’t seen it before and you have to watch it again with me. Those are the only exceptions.”
Nick could imagine spending a hundred thousand pounds—who couldn’t? Ask anybody and they’d tell you. Pay your debts, new car, the deposit on a flat, a bit to charity, a bit to Mum and Dad to say thank you. It was the dream.
