"A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic."

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield

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“I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.”
“The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.”
“I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.”
“Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”
“I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.”
“...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.28, Del Rey
“If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.”
“A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.”

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