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306,000 people, including children, were reported missing in the UK, which is an average of 838 per day. Thirty-six percent of those are adults and eighty-nine percent of missing people are found or return home within forty-eight hours.
“The thing about work is that it’s a habit. If you do it enough. it sort of sticks so that you feel wrong if you’re not doing something.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“Even thinking about working makes me feel queasy. This I know makes me sound a lot like I have no ambition. It presents me as almost having given up on life. It suggests that I’m content to just exist like some corpulent bluebottle basking in the sunshine on the windowsill of life.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“It’s the best feeling in the world knowing there’s someone in your corner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you mess up, they will always be on your side.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
“It’s hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It’s hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don’t give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn’t develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up.”
― The Summer That Never Was
― The Summer That Never Was
“Martha kisses me on the cheek too, only she does not wipe away her lipstick afterwards. When she is not looking, I touch where she put her lips. It feels sticky but in a nice way. Like she has left part of her kiss behind for me to find later tonight, when I am in bed and dropping off to sleep.”
― The Man I Think I Know
― The Man I Think I Know
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Grumpy Old Books’s 2025 Year in Books
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