Keith Hudson

“a bizarre footnote, in 2010 Julia Thomas’s skull was unearthed in the garden of the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. A team of builders discovered the skull when they were excavating foundations for an extension, at the spot where the Rising Sun once stood. In July 2011, the West London coroner Alison Thompson formally identified the skull as belonging to Julia Thomas and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.”
― Catharine Arnold, Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

“He had the alertly stupid look of a dullard, Tom thought; the kind of child that either dies young or grows up to be the village idiot.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Then he returned to his room and switched on the evening news. The world was doing poorly;”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“Horace Walpole wrote in the mid-eighteenth century: ‘No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the lengths that may be necessary.”
― Max Hastings, Chastise