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Mooncalves: Strange Stories

by John W.M. Thompson

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“I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

tags: world-revolves-around

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“Almost everything that lives in the ocean is also made up of the ocean, to some degree, rather like the way we inherit mitochondrial DNA from our mothers, and our cells likewise hang around in our mothers' bloodstreams for years after we're born.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

tags: dna, ocean, science

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“It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

tags: west-virginia

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“Anywhere there's people, there's a possibility of evil, wouldn't you say?”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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“(I am still not entirely sure what vicars are, since we don’t have them over here. I think they’re like cozy priests? As far as I can tell, they primarily exist in order to solve murders or be murdered on British crime shows.)”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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