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Book cover for The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
Words on paper are quiet, and porous; in the right mood, I sink down between the gaps in the letters and they close over my head. Words and paper. That’s the easy part. So I’ll be drifting in words, absorbing, and the words I absorb will be ...more
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“We waste so much time on elaborations. What did that poet chap say - spending ou lives making more and more money because we're for ever discovering we need too much. It's quite true. New things are invented, so of course we think we need them.”
Carol Carnac, Crossed Skis

Kelly Barnhill
“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness.”
Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

Marthe Jocelyn
“Young women are restrained by so many tethers, it is not surprising that occasionally they get themselves tangled.”
Marthe Jocelyn, The Seaside Corpse

Marthe Jocelyn
“I shall write him a murder story in a letter, but I won't put in the ending. I'll write the clues and the suspects and possibly the weapon, but my present to him will be that he can puzzle it out all by himself."

And so, I began to plot.”
Marthe Jocelyn, The Seaside Corpse

Jan Eliasberg
“As the boy grew, he applied himself to the understanding of science and life, but always the first more readily than the second, for science was the logical aim of his own passionate curiosity, and life was the mystic parabola that eluded his grasp every time he became certain he had solved the equation of its inevitable arc.”
Jan Eliasberg, Hannah's War

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