Quotes from The Magpies

“You’re mad. Rats don’t try and get in through closed doors!”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“And soon they would be living together. They would be sharing a bedroom and he would live with her fragrance – as part of the background of his life – every day. Breath and hair and skin and sweat and all the atoms and particles”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“lay just beneath the surface of consciousness, jagged thoughts and dark music looping inside his head, preventing him from sinking into deeper sleep, where he wanted, and needed, to be.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“In cities, after all, you are always within screaming distance of a psychopath.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“You know what HTML really stands for? How to meet ladies.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“She was both his compass and his map, and he would be lost on his own. Lost in the darkness.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“Lemsip for her. While waiting for the kettle”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“would melt, liquid metal dripping to”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“cities, after all, you are always within screaming distance of a psychopath.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“strength from her. He honestly didn’t know what”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“As soon as Kirsty walked into the living room, just behind Jamie, she knew something was wrong. There were no immediate tangible signs, but she could feel it. The atmosphere in the room felt wrong. There had been a shift in the air, a strange shape imprinted on the molecules that hung around them and made up the fabric of the room. She could smell it, this unwelcome odour. She felt like an animal, its hackles rising as it caught the scent of a stranger, an invader, an enemy encroaching on its territory.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

“For example, basil is great for curing stomach cramps, and sage is good for anxiety or depression.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies

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“You're unlike anyone I've ever known. You're kind, smart, funny, gracious...hell, you even laugh at Blake's jokes. I want you. And that includes everything that makes you who you are.”
― J.B. Salsbury, quote from Fighting for Flight

“Yo quiero que escuchen cada palabra, porque esta canción es exactamente lo que siento por ti. Tú eres el amor de mi vida, la luz de mi mundo, y mi salvadora. Estarás esas cosas a mí para siempre”
― Sandi Lynn, quote from Forever Us

“– Мистър Бог няма лице.
Обърнах се към нея и повдигнах въпросително вежди: „Как така?“ Ана отново се допря до ухото ми:
– Щото няма нужда да се обръща, за да види всички. Зат’ва! – после се облегна на пейката и, потвърждавайки с кимане своята увереност, скръсти ръце, с което показа, че слага точка по въпроса.
На път за вкъщи я попитах какво бе искала да каже с думите „няма нужда да се обръща“.
– Ами аз си имам „предница“, имам си и „задница“, зат’ва трябва да се обръщам, ако искам да видя какво има отзад. А Мистър Бог не трябва.
– А какво прави той тогава?
– Мистър Бог има само предница, той няма задница.
– О – кимнах на свой ред аз, – разбирам.
Идеята, че Мистър Бог няма задница, ми се стори удивително смешна и с все сила се опитах да потисна смеха си. Не успях и след малко избухнах. Ана бе леко озадачена от моя изблик.
– За к’во се смееш?
– Просто на идеята, че Мистър Бог няма задница. Ана присви за миг очи и прихна. Усмивката озари очите й и тя грейна като бенгалски огън.
– Той си няма и онова, нали? – смехът й се разнесе по улицата, издигайки по нея малки барикади. Всички отявлени и самодоволни християни се спънаха в смеха и се намръщиха.
– Мистър Бог си няма дупе – си пееше Ана по мелодията на един християнски химн. Намръщените физиономии гледаха все по-скандализирано и ужасено.
– Отвратително! – каза Неделният Костюм.
– Малка дивачка! – изскърцаха Неделните Обувки.
– Дяволско изчадие! – отсече Джобният Часовник с полюляваща се от жилетката верижка, но Ана продължаваше, смеейки се заедно с Мистър Бог.
По пътя към къщи тя упражняваше новооткритата си игра. Както се хвърляше с духовното си същество в обятията на Мистър Бог, така се хвърляше с физическото си същество в моите.
„Мистър Бог няма дупе“ не беше шега, Ана не се държеше като непослушно или глупаво дете. Това бе просто изригване на нейния дух. С тези думи тя се спусна към Мистър Бог и той я улови. Ана знаеше, че ще я улови, знаеше, че нищо не я грози. Наистина нямаше друг начин, просто трябваше да се направи. Това бе нейният начин да бъде спасена.
И с мен си играеше така. Заставаше на известно разстояние, затичваше се и се хвърляше в прегръдките ми. Затичването беше целенасочено и активно, миг след като отскочеше, оставаше напълно пасивна и неподвижна. Не полагаше никакво усилие да ми помогне, за да я хвана, никакво усилие за собствената си сигурност. Сигурността за нея не бе нито едно от тези неща, сигурността означаваше да се довериш на другия.”
― Fynn, quote from Mister God, This is Anna

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and scream at the sight of it. But she knew that great grief came from great love, and that their grief was an honor to her. And she did love them so very much.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from The Shadow Thieves

“Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.”
― Trevor Noah, quote from Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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