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Mayflies
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Andrew O'Hagan27,103 ratings, 3.93 average rating, 3,656 reviews
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“The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“Don’t look back. Go to the car and don’t look back.”
“Looking back is all I’ve got,” he said.”
― Mayflies
“Looking back is all I’ve got,” he said.”
― Mayflies
“...it was magic to feel you had things to say and people to say them to, and a gentle fog of contentment filled the bar...”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“If being young is a crime scene,” I said, “the evidence from that night is everywhere.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“It was like a veil had fallen, and all his carnal energy and all his native certainty – everything strong in him – was now devoted to the matter of his own destruction.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“You are a human being. And that's and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“They were just boys, and the romance of it all lay in knowing they'd seen the sun together.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“Among the people I recognised from our past, many of their faces were much the same and others were completely blurred by life, as if time was wiping them.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“What we had that day was our story. We didn’t have the other bit, the future, and we had no way of knowing what that would be like. Perhaps it would change our memory of all this, or perhaps it would draw from it, nobody knew. But I’m sure I felt the story of that hall and how we reached it would never vanish.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“We can air our grievances in life, or we can try to understand other people's. Anna's a smart person. She does the really hard work with Tully and then he goes off and makes a plan with somebody else. It's a thing men do. Not the end of the world, but you can't expect her to like it.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“He spent the strike slagging off other miners. He never shifted a single one of his prejudices. And recently, while we were making things nice at the house he was upstairs boiling with anger. The way he turns up at the football field all raging and full of spite about the boys trying to get a clear shot at the goal. Violence, man. At some level they pass that on to you, the violence. Unless you say no.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“The traditional Scots method of dealing with a person in crisis is first to make them feel worse and then to help them.”
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― Mayflies
“What's England ever done for you?' Tully asked.
'George Orwell. Factory Records. Brookside,' Tibbs said.”
― Mayflies
'George Orwell. Factory Records. Brookside,' Tibbs said.”
― Mayflies
“I think it was a moment of pure honesty, and maybe we were adults for the first time, sitting by that canal in perfect daylight under the moving cranes.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“I could see it clearly, the dream of newness tugging him along, the wish to separate from home.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“The egocentric strategies of childhood don't always go on to become adult traits, but I think we all believed, pretty instinctively, that they would with Hogg.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“Violence, man. At some level they pass that on to you, the violence. Unless you say no.’
‘Well, you are saying no...”
― Mayflies
‘Well, you are saying no...”
― Mayflies
