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“The C is for Carver,”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Eddie knew it. All the talk of hip-hop and money had done the trick. This could have ended very badly for Eddie. He was lucky he’d chosen to stand in Carlos’s queue. Well, a bit of luck, a bit of judgment.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“Would you like to go on a walk with me?”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“If we really are the most intelligent species on Earth—and I believe we are—why didn’t science approach this from the other direction a long time ago? Why are years spent painstakingly teaching lab animals sign language if modern researchers believe that their capacity to learn is less than ours? Wouldn’t it be much easier if we finally began to learn the language of animals?”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World