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Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus

by Len Wein

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Mar 17, 2026 11:28AM

“(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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“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: books, character-development, growth, reading

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“Bongo is an excellent watchdog, by which I mean that he will watch very alertly as the serial killer breaks into the house and skins me.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

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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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“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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