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London’s cemeteries were so overcrowded that a special railway, the Necropolis line, shunted corpses from a local station to graveyards south of the city.
This is like, super morbid (especially in current pandemic times), but also, like, kinda fascinating. In a morbid way.
“There was a life Chris hadn't been able to take in his grasp. Families, driveways, trampolines, friends around for dinner. All the stuff you'd see on adverts. Was this forever now? The lonely flat with the neutral walls and the Sky Sports. Maybe there was a way out, but Chris couldn't immediately spot it. Treading water, getting fatter, laughing less. Chris was out of rocket fuel. It was lucky that Chris loved his job, was good at his job. Chris always found it easy to get up in the morning; he just found it hard to go to sleep at night.”
― The Thursday Murder Club
― The Thursday Murder Club
“The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.”
― Three Act Tragedy
― Three Act Tragedy
“when shit starts to go sideways first thing in the morning, go back to bed and start over.”
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“Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it. Impoliteness is the Mildew of mankind, Eddie.”
― Shades of Grey
― Shades of Grey
S’s 2025 Year in Books
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