“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
“When the average candidate was clumsy, audiences liked him even less. But when the expert was clumsy, audiences liked him even more.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“...My choice wasn't supposed to include you coming along and getting killed, too, and when I'm probably going to die anyway, you shouldn't waste your feelings on me.
You're brilliant, Essie, but you're still dim on a few things. Feelings can't be wasted. Knowing they're real for however long they last makes them worth having.”
― R.C. Lewis, quote from Stitching Snow
“La humildad no es una opción sino un requisito innegociable para quien sirve a Dios y en esto también nos ayuda la oración. Volvi”
― quote from Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us
“Besides producing reductive scientific and religious systems, the old herding cultures produced reductive and predatory economic systems that increasingly viewed humans as economic units and led gradually to gross inequalities in the distribution of wealth. By the historic era three thousand years ago, we see in our most ancient writings such as Homer, the Old Testament, and Sumerian cuneiform writings a well-established economic system dominated by rich cattle-owning kings battling over lands for their livestock, with the masses of people reduced to mere resources who fought, produced, and consumed to benefit the wealthy elite. Early science was used to manipulate livestock bloodlines to maximize flesh, milk, and wool output, and religion was used to justify and even mandate the slaughter of animals for food. These are precisely the institutions we have inherited and that operate today and live in us because we continue to eat foods derived from reduced animals.”
― Will Tuttle, quote from The World Peace Diet
“Remember, the way we perceive ourselves is often nothing like what we really are,” he said.”
― R.K. Ryals, quote from The Story of Awkward
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