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one fool had even tried to build a spider. ‘You can’t make arachnids out of plasticine,’ I thought, ‘they have stiff legs, that’s a job for Meccano.’
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“You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.”
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“Home’, it had struck her on the torturous drive back to London, wasn’t Egerton Gardens, wasn’t even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“After that Sylvie made sure they all went to the swimming baths in town and took lessons, from an ex-major in the Boer War who barked orders at them until they were too frightened to sink.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“In this game of building blocks, the probability of producing such a self-replicating chain of organic molecules was so minuscule that it was as if a tornado had picked up a pile of metallic trash and deposited it as a fully-assembled Mercedes-Benz.”
― Death's End
― Death's End
Testers' Island Discs - Castaway Recommendations
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