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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.
“I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.”
― 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
“Time passed like the Sahara seeping through an hourglass.”
― Until Our Blood is Dry
― Until Our Blood is Dry
“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
“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
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