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“The place names and direction signs were as jewels set into a mosaic: the Quirinale, the Orti Farnesiani, the Fontana di Trevi, the Arco di Constantine, Santa Maria Maggiore. To say those words aloud was to fizz.”
― Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House

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“You will never escape me,” Ione had said as we lay together on our last night. “I’m a siren and we both live in the Kingdom by the Sea. Every evening I will sit on the rocks at Greyhope Bay and sing you home to me.” “Every evening?” “Obviously I might have to work, or study, or go to the pub. But definitely Wednesdays and Sundays—minimum.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Stone and Sky

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“The rest of his life. How long that time had once felt to him. How quickly it has sped by. How much of it has been wasted. How soon it will be over.”
― Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

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“Life is a bunch of cells walking around with a common purpose.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

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“Nightingale waits—he’s good at waiting. He once told me that the most important thing he’s learned in his long life is how to wait. Mind you, he can wait in lots of different ways—this is the way that says, I’m so old and patient, I can do this all day.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Stone and Sky

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