I did it to stand up for Airdrie. I did it because of Memorial Device. I did it because later on everyone went off and became social workers and did courses on how to teach English as a foreign language or got a job in Greggs.
“They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“...it was magic to feel you had things to say and people to say them to, and a gentle fog of contentment filled the bar...”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“To every time, its own normality.”
― Death and the Penguin
― Death and the Penguin
“The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“You know why you don’t understand me?” Parisa answered Reina’s thoughts, stepping closer to lower her voice. “Because you think you’ve figured me out. You think you’ve met me before, other versions of women like me, but you have no idea what I am. You think my looks are what make me? My ambitions? You can’t begin to know the sum of my parts, and you can stare all you like, but you won’t see a damn thing until I show you.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
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