Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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Hours later, night fell. I knew how it felt.
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The bar staff
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No named characters
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take your eye off the ball and Fate, Destiny, History, call it what you will, steps up and just pisses all over your chips.
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winding up
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Bloody Barclay and her high-tech gizmos. The pulse had caused the cages to open, not lock.
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On purpose? Question
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You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.
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Haha. Something Ian Malcolm would say. “As expected, the sum of our human endeavors has led to our annihilation, and the only play now, is to take the time we have left, and, uh, you know, just like we always do, squander it.” ~ Ian Malcolm, Jurassic World Dominion
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Mr Strong
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She has five years worth of wages in the bank - question
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Mrs De Winter.
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‘Cleo Partridge – my sister.’
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downstairs in her big kitchen
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Like my digs on Herbert Place in Dublin.
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I knew, none better, how very creative St Mary's could be in their disobedience while actually doing exactly as they’d been told.
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Being a teacher she obviously did mind-reading as well.
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Guthrie, Farrell, Peterson, and the indestructible Markham.
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Evidence, had I been in the mood, that T. rex was both a predator and a scavenger.
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I couldn’t get any closer than eleven days, no matter how hard I tried, because the computer just wouldn’t accept it.
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I’m not good enough to override your computer's safety protocols and I just couldn’t get any nearer than eleven days
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‘Are you aware Miss Barclay has filed a report claiming she saw the bodies?’ ‘Has she indeed? Then we’ve got her.’ ‘As per our previous conversation, Miss Maxwell, I would like you to deal with this matter. In public and with prejudice.’
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We were going to do things the St Mary's way.
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Listen to me telling Mrs Partridge she’d made a mistake. Death-wish Maxwell, they call me.
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history for profit.’
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You’re not children,’ he said, in the teeth of all the evidence.
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OK, not my best, but I was drunk, battered, stressed, and distressed.
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Jenny Fields,
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sarnie
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I was feeling cautious. I think that's the first time I’ve ever said that.
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‘Do your laundry, Miss Maxwell, ‘ and then, and only then, do I find this little chap – on his last legs but hanging in there, safe in St Mary's at last.’
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butties
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Mrs Mack handed me a plate of leaves. ‘What's this?’ ‘Mushroom omelette and salad. Doctor's orders.’ ‘But it's green.’
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‘Green food is good for you.’ ‘Can’t I have mint choc-chip ice-cream instead?’
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‘You’ll go blind,’ I said,
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Haha - I was told that happens from doing it alone.
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I’m lost. I don’t know where I am in the world. I don’t know if I’m a hero or a villain.
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I do know my world is full of grief and loss and pain and that nothing will ever be the same again.’
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Kal and Dieter
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we got stuck in.
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‘Mr Murdoch,
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Sibyl De Winter
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Sibylline Books
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There are at least eleven historians in this unit.’
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Pathfinders.
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establish, visit, and confirm co-ordinates for key historical events.
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‘The second section will be responsible for policing the timeline and identifying any anomalies.
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there will almost certainly be hostile interference from the future.
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they don’t give a rat's arse about the time continuum so long as there's a profit in it somewhere.
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This stupidity endangers us all.
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search and rescue.
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at least one historian to make the tea,
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Haha cf. from historians upwards, p. 239