“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
Mark Edwards
Born place: in Tunbridge Wells, The United Kingdom
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“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
― Robert Bolt, quote from A Man for All Seasons
“A critical faculty is a terrible thing. When I was eleven there were no bad films, just films I didn't want to see, there was no bad food, just Brussels sprouts and cabbage, and there were no bad books - everything I read was great. Then suddenly, I woke up in the morning and all that had changed. How could my sister not hear that David Cassidy was not in the same class as Black Sabbath? Why on EARTH would my English teacher think that 'The History of Mr Polly' was better than 'Ten Little Indians' by Agatha Christie? And from that moment on, enjoyment has been a much more elusive quality.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Fever Pitch
“we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death”
― Julian Barnes, quote from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from What Really Happened in Peru
“Here is the world to which I am condemned, in which, despite myself, I must somehow live.' I said.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The House of the Dead
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