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“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition

“But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you’d rather be without.”
― P.D. James, The Black Tower

“Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one plunges into the dark stretch again.”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

“It is just like one of those ridiculous paperbacks where some amateur  with no apparent connection to the forces of law and order leaps in and saves the day. ”
― Claire Ingrams, The Perils of 1925