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“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“I heard you’d gone into a monastery.’ Tony nodded. ‘I did, only I didn’t stay long. I couldn’t be doing with all the praying and getting up early, though I kinda liked wearing those robe thingies.’ ‘Cassocks?’ I suggested. ‘No, it’s true.”
― Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
― Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
“Show me a cup of tea and I’ll show you at least two historians attached to it.”
― Just One Damned Thing After Another
― Just One Damned Thing After Another
“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear.”
― A Symphony of Echoes
― A Symphony of Echoes
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