I pass the charity shops, wondering if the clothes in the windows were donated in generosity or sorrow. I run past the man pushing a broom along the pavement, sweeping away the litter of other people’s lives. Then I run past the Italian
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“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever livèd in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Yes,” says Dido, her gaze resolutely on her computer screen. “OK. And by the way”—she looks up suddenly—“I’ve read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.”
― The Family Upstairs
― The Family Upstairs
“Whatever we did—or, more crucially, did not do—it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“I’ve hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Why, James?” Meredith said, quietly, reproachfully, as if he had somehow betrayed her. “You of all people should understand . . . We don’t owe him anything.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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