Mark Porton

“OH YOU LIED, YOU LYING SACK OF CLOUD SCALES!”
― Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

“How can a health service so stripped of spare capacity cope with the demands of a once-ina-lifetime global pandemic? I bite my lip and think longingly of Germany’s twenty-nine intensive care beds per 100,000 people – four times the number of ICU beds in Britain”
― Rachel Clarke, Breathtaking

“Be the best. Work harder, work smarter. Exceed every expectation. But also, be invisible, imperceptible. Don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Don’t inconvenience. Exist in the negative only, the space around. Do not insert yourself into the main narrative. Go unnoticed. Become the air. Open your eyes.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in
her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And
forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.
It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in
that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it
... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than
anything else”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart