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My Husband
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When my husband is absent, the house resounds less, like a piano whose soft pedal is engaged: the sound comes out muted, domestic life loses variation and intensity. It’s as though someone’s placed an enormous lid over our roof.
“In some households you only have to turn up three times before you’re expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.”
― Foxglove Summer
― Foxglove Summer
“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Life is short but also like terribly and insufferably long at the same time.”
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“Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.”
― Foxglove Summer
― Foxglove Summer
“Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?”
― Midnight Riot
― Midnight Riot
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