Mark Shurville

“He envied people who could believe. It relieved a man of a lot of responsibility”
― Ted Allbeury, All Our Tomorrows

“The British are a neutered puppy, Herr Brogan. Driven into irrelevance by poor decisions and weak politicians and a poverty you hide from your people. You can’t defend your own country from the daily invasions that are destroying your very culture. You … you … you can barely fix the holes in your roads.”
― Frederick Forsyth, Revenge of Odessa

“He did not complain. He was proud to live in a country, possessed of an empire of some 440 million people, in which the head of the government passed unrecognised, and whose official residence was at the end of a side street hardly anyone could find.”
― Robert Harris, Precipice

“Maybe that’s the crack in her shell. She can’t feel for anything she considers a person, but pets are different.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker