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To sell a book I need to match a text to a type and arrange a happy marriage, or torrid affair, or merely a debauched weekend, but whichever it is it needs to be a discovery, something that would not have happened without my intervention.
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“All I can think about is having sat in that waiting room ahead of appearing before the medical tribunal and hospital board, looking at the thickly framed oil paintings around the walls. The men who have been commended. The hospital wings we walk down, named after men; the classical music we listen to in surgery, men. Their honours and careers seem less impressive when you realise they had full-time free childcare, a cook, a cleaner, launderer. They had wives.”
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“It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones on your shelf. They can wait.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“You’re past is stone, but your future clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Empire of the Vampire
― Empire of the Vampire
“This world won’t give you what you want just because you asked nicely, girl. Not respect. Not love. Not peace. You get what you earn. You eat what you kill.”
― Empire of the Damned
― Empire of the Damned
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