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“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

tags: humour, questions, wisdom, wrong

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#2

“A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

tags: deceit, information, untruth

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#3

“The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

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#4

“And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.”
― Alexander Maksik, A Marker to Measure Drift

tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life, thought-provoking

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#5

“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

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#6

“Cos there's holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren't never bad kids, we just didn't have nothing to hold on to, that's all.”
― Ian Ayris, Abide With Me

tags: crime, kids, london, philosophy, society

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#7

“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.”
― Alan Hinkes, 8000 Metres: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains

tags: climbing, climbing-mountains, death, mountaineering, mountains

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#8

“As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:"We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks.”
― Alan Hinkes, 8000 Metres: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains

tags: black-humor, flying, helicopter-pilots, humour, mountaineering

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#9

“The good, the bad, the virgin, and the harlot: no one is spared, all go rose-spattered with plague lesions. I see no sense, no judgment before doom strikes. Death takes us all with the black malady or the sweating sickness, or the white blindness or the winter croup, or the crops failing or bitter water in our mouths.”
― Ned Hayes, Sinful Folk

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#10

“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our passage. Their black feathers are stark as soot against the white road and the snow. They stab at the ground with their strange bare bills and gray unfeathered faces. The birds are like rough-edged black stones on a string around this stripped cold neck of road. The old books tell us rooks bring the virtuous dead to heaven’s gate.”
― Ned Hayes, Sinful Folk

tags: historical, historical-fiction, historical-fiction-mystery, medieval

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#11

“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.”
― Ned Hayes, Sinful Folk

tags: inner-peace, inner-strength, medieval

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#12

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#13

“Doubt is faith's shadow.”
― Jo Nesbo, The Redeemer

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#14

“We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.”
― Jo Nesbø

tags: phantom-harry-hole-9

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#15

“You only know yourself because of your memories.”
― Andrea Gillies

tags: alzheimers, alzheimers-elder-care, dementia

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#16

“I knew today was gonna be bad, but I never got close to this”
― Ian Ayris

tags: crime, dark-humour

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“So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office, lookin at each other, lettin Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony take us to places too beautiful and too fuckin sad for words.”
― Ian Ayris

tags: bleak, music, violent

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#18

“I'm goin past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls bein ripped apart.”
― Ian Ayris

tags: dark, factories, industrialisation

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#19

“He shrugged. 'I know you're the type'
'Type?'
'The type that doesn't let things go”
― Tim Weaver, Never Coming Back

tags: determination, no-surrender

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#20

“As real as,' said Eddie.
'As real as what?' said Jack.
'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...”
― Robert Rankin, The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

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#21

“By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

tags: desolate, love, love-hurts, suicide

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#22

“The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

tags: humor, irony, life

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#23

“I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there in the world with that particular gift, I'm not one of them...But books, on the other hand: I do still believe that books can save you.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Borrower

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#24

“He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop of attractive but useless and overpriced items that the damned would wander for eternity in the cold delusion that this was what they wanted. And then Nerys had taken him to IKEA and Clovenhoof realised the humans had once again beaten him to it.”
― Heide Goody, Clovenhoof

tags: hell, humour, satan, shopping

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#25

“The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.”
― Jamie Bartlett

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#26

“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

tags: gamache, guns, humility, mistakes, tattoos

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#27

“All the mistakes I’ve made have been because I’ve assumed something and then acted as though it was fact. Very dangerous, Agent Lemieux. Believe me. I wonder if you haven’t already leaped to a false conclusion?”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

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#28

“Only one person in the room didn't cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.”
― Anna McPartlin

tags: death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one

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#29

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: descriptive, love-quote

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#30

“Mairi stared at Parlabane with an expression he had seen too often down the years: that look of distress at having discovered precisely how deep the rabbit hole goes, and what darkness lay at its end.”
― Christopher Brookmyre

tags: dark-humor

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