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In a world sick with envy that leads to coveting that leads to greed that too often results in violence, it wouldn’t seem that something as small as excellent muffins could lift a man’s spirits, even during talk of murder. But that is the
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“an avalanche of paperwork cascading on them from a government bureaucracy that measured its effectiveness by the number of people it could annoy and by the degree to which it could annoy them. Benny”
― The Bad Weather Friend
― The Bad Weather Friend
“Everywhere is danger. Life itself is danger. Less risky never being born.”
― The Bad Place: A gripping horror novel of spine-chilling suspense
― The Bad Place: A gripping horror novel of spine-chilling suspense
“No one really dies, Mr Pollard. They just go on from here. Grief is good, but guilt is pointless.”
― The Bad Place: A gripping horror novel of spine-chilling suspense
― The Bad Place: A gripping horror novel of spine-chilling suspense
“It was the slow, deep hour before sunrise, when death is closest and dreams hold sway in men’s sleep. The air was warm and still, and the night hushed. There was a sense of everything slowing, of time losing half a tick in its clockwork progression, of life drifting momentarily from its inexorable pathway so that death, for a few precious moments, might be further delayed.”
― First King of Shannara
― First King of Shannara
“Henrietta can feel that familiar blank expression forming on her face, the one that protected her through her lonely schooldays and then university and jobs where nobody spoke to her. It’s the face that hides the rising panic of knowing that she’s failed again.”
― Tell Me How This Ends
― Tell Me How This Ends
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