Jeroen
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“It’s a situation, being invisible. You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“I'd done nothing to deserve good luck, and I knew what people are made of. Sooner or later they turn on you. Or die.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“In the Colombo refugee camp, I had longed for a book to remove me from reality. With every chapter I read now, I felt not removed but partially returned to a safety I had thought entirely lost. I tethered my interior life to the pages, which the people I loved had turned in different times and places.”
― Brotherless Night
― Brotherless Night
“Pressure gathered in the backs of his eyes.
Oh, he thought when he realised what it was: tears.”
― Real Life
Oh, he thought when he realised what it was: tears.”
― Real Life
“In a house where there are few callers, there is often a long interval between the bell and its acknowledgment. There must be time for reflection on who it might be, for no-one is ever expected, then a time for anxiety that the mundane but safe pattern of life had changed, a time to feel fear and uncertainty, and then, in practical terms, time for the hesitant steps to the door.”
― The Elected Member
― The Elected Member
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