Rob Twinem

“If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: A Man Booker Prize Longlisted Literary Fiction Novel of English Life

“You can demand respect. You can treat them with it too. You can save their children. You can find their wandering grandparents. You can judge the goddamn pie contest. But sometimes you still have to remind them you’re not to be fucked with. It’s the only thing some people understand.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Three decades of being the most respectable science professional or suburban mother count for nothing set against one fuck in a doorway.”
― Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard