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“smile on every lovely thing’. It isn’t enough to notice lovely things, you have to try to take pleasure in them even when you don’t feel like it – maybe especially when you don’t feel like it.”
― Samantha Ellis, Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

“because grief’s only ever as deep as the love it’s replaced.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“At the bottom of this dark pit of media corruption lies the body of Daniel Morgan.”
― Alastair Morgan, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed

“Kingdom Come Church was a colossal old gargoyle crouching on the top of the hill. Its centuries-old spire crumbled at the edges, threatening to topple over at any point and spike someone in the heart.”
― Peter Laws, Purged

“Fingers curl around the ticket shortly after the Boy places it on the clown’s palm. One by one, but in non-sequential order, as though each finger is independent of the others.”
― Kelly Brocklehurst, Welcome to the Funhouse: A Horror Anthology

“If everyone is asleep in bed and it’s dark and something happens, then that event is deemed to have taken place in The Middle Of The Night.”
― Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

“I can’t sleep easy if there’s an open container of savoury snacks in the house.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“They fear what they don’t understand. And that fear turns to hate for reasons I’m sure even they can’t begin to comprehend.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“He entered the garden, calling after Calliope, demanding that she show herself. She didn’t, of course, because she was a cat and therefore didn’t listen to anything anyone told her.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“She had a beautiful Scottish brogue and spoke fast, as though the words were too hot to hold in her mouth for long.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Let’s all eat our feelings instead of expressing them.”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death

“Everyone always claims to hate small talk, but does nothing to stop it whilst it’s going on.”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death

“I think about the fact that my fridge has a better energy rating than me.”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death

“I may not be able to cure cancer or end world hunger, but small kindnesses go a long way.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I understand twitter trolls for what they are, rather sad people with nothing better to do. I have this image of them sitting there waiting to be outraged.”
― Duncan C. Campbell, We'll All Be Murdered in our Beds: The shocking history of crime reporting in Britain

“the Telegraph group noted that four key skills for their reporters would be ‘social, video, analytics and search engine optimisation’. What about ‘journalism”
― Duncan C. Campbell, We'll All Be Murdered in our Beds: The shocking history of crime reporting in Britain

“Good women are not a rewards system for silly men.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Well, like most sticklers for good manners, she’s as rude as they come.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“Found footage horror seeks (not always successfully) to create a space where spectators can enjoy having their boundaries pushed, where our confidence that we know where the lines between fact and fiction lie are directly challenged.”
― Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality

“realizing there was no-where to spit out the chocolate, I did what so many women do in the name of pleasing men, and I swallowed.”
― Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations

“Never underestimate the stories people tell themselves about how much better someone else’s life is.”
― Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations

“Statues are not harmless artifacts. They deliberately contrive to shore up narratives that attribute all of history and its deeds to a carefully selected group of mostly male individuals.”
― Otto English, Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

“In short, the “dominant narrative” of history has, for the last thousand years at least, been dictated by “the dominant people” and that means that it has been written by white males, about white males, for white males.”
― Otto English, Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

“Churchill was not a defender of democracy – he was a defender of the British Empire. And the two are not analogous.”
― Otto English, Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

“history has been footballified – if I can use such a term. It’s been turned into a game, with sides and jeering supporters.”
― Otto English, Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World