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“I open my mouth, my tongue flounders around and, eventually, my brain shoves it in the direction of the most obvious words: ‘He’s dead.’ ‘Dead?’ Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they’ve heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
“You’re not exactly a bag of spanners, and certain male bits have a mind of their own, and can you please stop staring at me like I’m a sex offender.”
― The Missing and the Dead
― The Missing and the Dead
“She dabbed at her eyes. ‘You’d be bored, Henry. An unfinished bottle of champagne found in an old cupboard with all the sparkle gone …’ The jaded phrase was worthy of a Haymarket author.”
― Travels With My Aunt
― Travels With My Aunt
“The journey is the destination. Finding the answers for yourself, achieving understanding, is part of your journey. There are no shortcuts along the path.”
― The Atlantis Plague
― The Atlantis Plague
“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up. We simply grow taller and hairier. Sometimes, I still feel amazed that I am allowed to drive a car, or that I have not been found out for drinking in the pub. Beneath the veneer of adulthood, beneath the layers of experience we accrue as the years march stoically onwards, we are all still children, with scraped knees and snotty noses, who need our parents … and our friends.”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
Tom Gorman’s 2025 Year in Books
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