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The sea has many voices. The voice this man is listening for is the voice of his mother. He lifts his head, turns his face to the chill air that moves in across the gulf, and tastes its sharp salt on his lip.
“The longer I live, Burke, the more I have come to understand that extraordinary people are eroded by their worries while the useless are carried ever forward by their delusions.”
― Inland
― Inland
“The house had probably cost a couple of million quid, with its two stories plus loft conversion, red brick, and detailing on the porch roof that hinted at Arts and Crafts without actually making it over the finishing line. It was at least mercifully free of pebble-dash and fake half-timbering. They’d retained the original sash windows but installed the venetian blinds that have replaced net curtains as the genteel response to sharing your neighborhood with other human beings.”
― Lies Sleeping
― Lies Sleeping
“If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of Fifty Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might just have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“And they served me a lot of free drinks. So I drank a little more than I should have, maybe. So some of what happened I don’t remember too well. But there was a lot of shouting.”
“You must have killed somebody,” said Smith.
“Yes, I think I did,” Lord Eyrdway agreed.”
― The Anvil of the World
“You must have killed somebody,” said Smith.
“Yes, I think I did,” Lord Eyrdway agreed.”
― The Anvil of the World
“A source of wibbly time stuff – stop me if I’m getting too technical – is heading north-west.”
― Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel
― Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel
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