Hugh Alsobrooks

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“You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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“The secret of blending in, is don’t try to. Everyone is so fucking self-obsessed.”
― Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice

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“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: death, regret, surprise

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“The ‘problem’ with having a conscience is you expect other people to have one too, so you analyse and evaluate their behaviour according to your own standards. But true sociopaths have no understanding why we all worry about rules or laws . . . or the lives and feelings of others.”
― Teresa Driscoll, The Friend

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“By noon, Pino was sitting on the steps of La Scala where he could see the front of the Hotel Regina and the Daimler parked nearby. He was numb with grief. Gazing across the street at the statue of the great Leonardo and listening to the chatter of citizens who hurried past, he wanted to cry again. Everyone was talking about the atrocity.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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