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Wouter van Noort is 16% done with Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)

Three down, eleven to go. It seems like a mountain to climb. When the atonement is complete and the amends are made, you can rest. So he tells himself.

— Jul 16, 2025 08:27AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 11% done with Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)

What you're thinking of doing is crazy, he tells himself.
Which is true.
If you do it, you can never go back, he tells himself.
That's also true.

— Jul 15, 2025 11:23AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)

Let it go, he thinks. Forget it.
Forgetting lasts just thirteen days.

— Jul 15, 2025 09:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 91% done with The Salt Path

It's a good decision, when you've got nowhere to go, to just keep moving. It's the staying still that drags people down.

— Jul 14, 2025 04:04PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 84% done with The Salt Path

We were starting at the end point, and heading back west, walking towards the point where our path had abruptly ended almost a year ago. Only 250 miles left to complete; an infinity of steps that might never be taken.

— Jul 14, 2025 11:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 77% done with The Salt Path

Other walkers of the South West Coast Path talk about miles done in a day, records set, targets met. Our path was getting slower and slower.

— Jul 14, 2025 07:29AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with The Salt Path

We could have stopped, but we had nothing to lose and everything to walk for. We were free here, battered by the elements, hungry, tired, cold, but free. Free to walk on or not, to stop or not.

— Jul 13, 2025 03:41PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 61% done with The Salt Path

The sky came down, sucked up the sea and dropped in on the land, turning us into slithering mud bodies sliding along the broken rocky path.

— Jul 13, 2025 08:48AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 54% done with The Salt Path

We sat on the bus; it was a strange sensation to move so quickly, covering a distance that would have taken us hours on foot in just a few minutes.

— Jul 12, 2025 08:14AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with The Salt Path

Our world was changing, the edges fading as our journey drew us on between sea, sky and rock. Becoming one with the wild edge we inhabited, our fetch redefined by the salt path we trod.

— Jul 11, 2025 04:20AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 42% done with The Salt Path

Our feet instinctively followed the path, drawn west on the dusty umbilical cord that was allowing us to grow, unseen, in our strip of wilderness.

— Jul 10, 2025 11:59AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 36% done with The Salt Path

Hand in hand in the hot mid-afternoon sun. Homeless, dying, but strangely, in that sweaty, dehydrated moment, shyly, reluctantly happy. Lucky bastards.

— Jul 10, 2025 02:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with The Salt Path

We'd expected extremes of weather while we were on the Coast Path, British weather. Wind, rain, fog, occasional hail even, but not the heat, the burning suffocating heat.

— Jul 09, 2025 03:45PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with The Salt Path

I knew the moment would come. The one thing I'd avoided thinking about when I'd come up with the ridiculous notion of living wild on the South West Coast Path. The moment when I'd have to face the big unanswered question: do bears shit in the woods?

— Jul 09, 2025 09:40AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 15% done with The Salt Path

"Let's pack the rucksacks, and make it up as we go along."
I take a deep breath. "The South West Coast Path it is then."

— Jul 08, 2025 10:52AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with The Salt Path

I was under the stairs when I decided to walk.
In that moment, I hadn't carefully considered walking 630 miles with a rucksack on my back, I hadn't thought about how I could afford to do it. And I hadn't told my partner of thirty-two years that he was coming with me.

— Jul 08, 2025 07:39AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 88% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

I pull out my phone, which has been buzzing all this time. Four missed calls. Four texts. Each of them just one word, one all-too-familiar word. And then one more now:
Bunny where are you?

— Jul 07, 2025 07:52AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 77% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

For the first time in weeks. He smiles at me.
"Hello, Samantha."

— Jul 07, 2025 02:58AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 72% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

No sign of him. The man from the bus. My bunny?
I start to think I dreamed him.

— Jul 06, 2025 01:36PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 66% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

If Ava were here, she would say Run.
Break a window if you have to.

— Jul 06, 2025 07:48AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

Bunny makes a face at us. A funny face.
Oh, Bunny, you're so funny.
We say Bunny is so funny and we laugh because it's true.
She is so funny.

— Jul 05, 2025 01:02PM 4 comments

Wouter van Noort is 53% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

"Why would we use anything other than bunnies, Bunny?"

— Jul 04, 2025 08:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 47% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

Kira pats my back, the handle of the bloodied ax still in her little fist. "Welcome to Workshop, Bunny."

— Jul 03, 2025 01:38PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 41% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

I hear my own scream stretching my face.
I fall to the earth. I fall and fall and fall. It's a long way down to the blood- and skull-splattered floor.

— Jul 03, 2025 02:39AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

I try to release myself from his grip. That's when he starts screaming. He just opens his mouth and screams and screams, looking right at me like I'm the most horrifying thing he's ever seen.

— Jul 02, 2025 03:44PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 26% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

I couldn't tell if they were joking. Were they joking?
We never joke about bunnies, Bunny.
Bunny, did they just call me Bunny?
Yes, Bunny.

— Jul 02, 2025 10:54AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 19% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

"Samantha," she says gently. "Have you never been to a Smut Salon before?" You never invited me, is what I want to say.

— Jul 02, 2025 04:45AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

I feel my right arm being grabbed and I am blindsided by a waft of familiar scent. Two hands swathed in fishnet mesh cover my eyes. "Boo!" she whispers into my ear.

— Jul 01, 2025 02:26PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Bunny (Bunny, #1)

We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.

— Jul 01, 2025 05:17AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 90% done with Caught Off Guard

"Ew," Matthias says.
"Not in a homophobic way, just in an ew way."

— Jun 30, 2025 02:22PM Add a comment

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