Petting dogs was good for people; it was a scientific fact. Burt was a wise man, too, in his way. All animals are.
“Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“Her only friends on the estate were books, and books can talk but do not listen.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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