Quotes from The Magpies

Mark Edwards ·  400 pages

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“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


About the author

Mark Edwards
Born place: in Tunbridge Wells, The United Kingdom
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