Rob Twinem

“Waiting for the world to shed tears for your pain was like waiting for a statue to speak.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“I was representing this man who was arrested for shoplifting, but I’ve got him a conditional discharge. That means he’s released and there will be no further action unless he commits another offence.’ ‘Oh, well done, Ad. I bet the gentleman was pleased with that.’ ‘He was actually. So pleased that he went immediately to the shop next door and nicked me a box of chocolates.”
― Rob Rinder, The Trial

“If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

“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