“The policemen had clearly been there all morning: four big white tea mugs from the canteen were drained and drip-stained, red-and-gold wrappers from caramel log biscuits were folded into interesting shapes on one side of the table, rolled up into tight little balls on the other.”
― Field of Blood
― Field of Blood
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
―
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
―
“January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter”
― Exile
― Exile
“When I first came here copyboys wouldn't have been allowed to eat in the canteen with journalists." A smile twitched at one corner of his mouth. "I was a copyboy once, at the Lanarkshire Gazette. Can ye believe that?"
He left a space for her to respond, so she did.
"Can I believe that a man as important as you was ever a copyboy or that Lanarkshire has its own gazette?”
― Field of Blood
He left a space for her to respond, so she did.
"Can I believe that a man as important as you was ever a copyboy or that Lanarkshire has its own gazette?”
― Field of Blood
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