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Book cover for The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
She sat them down with bottles of water and went to the nearest houses where she had been raiding. She came back with a bottle of olives, a can of peaches, and a pile of women’s clothes.
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J.D.   Palmer
“Dinner that evening is a simple affair: canned peaches and cold canned chili and half an apple each.”
J.D. Palmer, The Meek

Jess Row
“In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn’t find another use for and couldn’t compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you’d see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.”
Jess Row, The Empties

Jess Row
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
Jess Row, The Empties

Dexter Palmer
“To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can never stay the same.”
Dexter Palmer, Version Control

Matt Haig
“She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build”
Matt Haig, The Humans

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