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306,000 people, including children, were reported missing in the UK, which is an average of 838 per day. Thirty-six percent of those are adults and eighty-nine percent of missing people are found or return home within forty-eight hours.
“The thing about work is that it’s a habit. If you do it enough. it sort of sticks so that you feel wrong if you’re not doing something.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“You can cut and cut at a serpent’s tail. Unless you sever the head, it can still devour you.”
― The Fifth Knight
― The Fifth Knight
“Time passed like the Sahara seeping through an hourglass.”
― Until Our Blood is Dry
― Until Our Blood is Dry
“It’s hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It’s hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don’t give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn’t develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up.”
― The Summer That Never Was
― The Summer That Never Was
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Grumpy Old Books’s 2024 Year in Books
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