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“Many years ago, everybody here would wake early because there was a lot to do and only so many hours in the day. Now they wake early because there is a lot to do and only so many days left.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Someone came down from the Sun to talk to him, but Ron was having none of that. He told them to park outside Larkin Court and then had them clamped.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“I raised my cup to Kellin. ‘Long days and pleasant nights.’ I drank. It was sweet and good. ‘What an interesting toast. I’ve never heard it before.’ ‘I learned it from my father.’ This was true. I thought not much else I might say in this richly appointed room would be the truth, but that was. He’d read it in some book or other, but I didn’t intend to say that.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Empis … Bella … Arabella … there are other worlds than these, Charlie.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Enough,” he said; “the cough’s a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.” “True — true,” I replied;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

“We don’t bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don’t take anything out.’ ‘Yes, but the period in between those two events is more pleasant in comfort, don’t you think?’ McVries said.”
― Richard Bachman, The Bachman Books

“Tomorrow, then. That’s the problem with going out. One thing leads to another, and you find yourself going out again.”
― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune

“How did you get these salaries?’ ‘The big ones you get from LinkedIn,’ says Tia. A lot of cocaine dealers are now using LinkedIn, Connie has noticed; she keeps getting requests.”
― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune

“Joanna has recently introduced Joyce to Rightmove. It’s a website where you can see houses for sale. You click on them and they let you look inside! Thousands of strangers’ houses! Twenty, thirty, sometimes forty pictures. You can see their sofas, their kitchen cabinets, where they’ve put their wooden LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE signs, what they’ve done with their gardens and so on. And this site is free! Joyce doesn’t believe in all progress, self-service checkouts, for example, but she is certainly happy that somebody invented Rightmove.”
― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune

“How much longer does he have as a child, this clever boy? How much longer before life makes him an adult? Until his shoes have laces and his heart has scars? Until his shame deepens alongside his voice and he no longer wants to lie on the floor and colour in the planets?”
― Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune