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M.J. Hyland
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1968
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How the Light Gets In
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2003
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2 editions
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Carry Me Down
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2006
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This Is How
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2011
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2011
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3 editions
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How the Light Gets in
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Llévame contigo
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Even Pretty Eyes
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2022
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2 editions
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Wie ein Mord geschieht Roman
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Quali 2005. Englisch. Hauptschule Bayern 2000-2004
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Hauptschule 2005. Deutsch. Bayern
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“It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud.”
― How the Light Gets In
― How the Light Gets In
“I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.”
― How the Light Gets In
When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.”
― How the Light Gets In
“We remember the best fiction as though experienced, and we finish the greatest works with access to the inner-lives of the mind in a way life refuses us.”
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