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“I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which - it seems to me - turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.”
― Harriet Lane, Her

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“You look like a Greek God sent down by the immortal Zeus from Mount Olympus to taunt the rest of us inferior beings with your astonishing beauty, I said, which somehow in translation came out as "you look fine, why?”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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“The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

tags: humour-noir

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“...‘you’ve got him. These women who want perfume and designer handbags for Christmas – it’s when you’re unwrapping anti-freeze and smoke alarms that you know. When a man starts worrying about something happening to you, that’s when he really loves you.”
― Lucie Whitehouse, Before We Met

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“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.”
― Erin Kelly, Broadchurch

tags: grief

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This is a book club for people who love British Mysteries both modern and classic. You do not have to own a Kindle. We have a monthly reads and these ...more

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This group is for word lovers and has topics both serious (grammatical questions and concerns) and not so serious (word play and word games of all sor ...more

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