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"My phone beeps. Twice in quick succession. When I see both voicemails are from Daisy I decide to ignore them. The days when communication from my sister required an immediate response are long gone. Or rather long, long, long, gone, gone, gone, as Daisy once might have put it. Occasionally, there was poetry in her illness, although she would never see it that way." — Apr 09, 2018 03:03AM
"My phone beeps. Twice in quick succession. When I see both voicemails are from Daisy I decide to ignore them. The days when communication from my sister required an immediate response are long gone. Or rather long, long, long, gone, gone, gone, as Daisy once might have put it. Occasionally, there was poetry in her illness, although she would never see it that way." — Apr 09, 2018 03:03AM
Dedication For those who have given so much to so many.
Dedication For those who have given so much to so many.
“Are you sure she isn’t?” “Oh believe me, I’ve asked.” “Well,” said Paul, looking at the time on his phone, “I make that three hours and seven minutes, so if you could just sign my note…”
― A Man With One of Those Faces
― A Man With One of Those Faces
“Did she?” “It was in The Herald,” she confided. “Apparently you can’t move for Chinese lads these days. I don’t know what’s happening at all. You’d be afraid to go out at night.”
― A Man With One of Those Faces
― A Man With One of Those Faces
“Bernd doesn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know anyone over there, on the other side of the barbed wire. We’re sitting in a Kneipe in Kreuzberg drinking beers. It’s a bohemian place, the sort of bar that attracts artists, students and political agitators. Old copies of the weeks’ newspapers litter the tables and benches.”
― Oranges for Christmas
― Oranges for Christmas
“for me, although with the same voice my readers have come to anticipate. I believe that people are pretty much the same, regardless of era, physical space, or culture, and this is the essence of my storytelling. I strive for characters you will relate to, no matter where or when they may have lived. The Girl Who Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn’t be more thrilled to see its publication. In my twenty-six years of publishing, it’s my first major hardcover release and brings me full circle to work with Lou Aronica, whom I first had the pleasure of working with while at Avon Books. It’s also my very first non-genre novel, although you will find it a signature”
― The Things We Leave Behind
― The Things We Leave Behind
Peter Griffin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter Griffin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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