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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“what system would I want as the falsely accused? Knowing what I already know after only a few years exposed to the grimy coalface of the criminal justice system, would I have faith in an inquisitorial jurisdiction where the state, with its variable competence and political vulnerability, controlled my fate throughout? Or would I trust the presentation of my case to an independent solicitor and advocate, and hope that twelve ordinary people, shown evidence that is relevant, reliable and fairly adduced, would find the prosecution insufficient to convict me? Every time the answer is the same.”
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“You may well know a lawyer, or of a friend of a friend who’s a lawyer, who is fabulously well off. If so, I offer you an iron-clad guarantee that they are not a criminal lawyer.”
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
“That’s the strangest of all. I look down at his blood and know my death is coming. But in the dream I do not mind. What I feel, most of all, is relief.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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Josie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Fantasy, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Science fiction, Thriller, Young-adult, Humour, cultural, indonesian-literature, turkish-literature, indian-literature, chinese-literature, russian-literature, latin-american-literature, cyberpunk, steampunk, weird-fiction, africa, asia, lebanon, kenya, latin-american, legal-thriller, mystery-thriller, and cozy-mystery
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