‘I’ve learned to recognise the way people don’t say things.’ (MR)
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‘It’s all just...people.’ (MR)
‘I wish people would not be so careless about what they believe.’ (MR)
‘To be frank, the problem here is not that you are women. As such, that is. But you persist in maintaining that you are. You see? We can’t have that.’ (MR)
‘A famous last stand, sir?’ said Jackrum. He spat expertly into the fire in the tumbledown hearth. ‘To hell with them, sir. That’s just a way of dyin’ famous!’ (MR)
‘We must take advantage of the “tide of fortune”’.
‘I know about tides, sir. They leave little fish gaspin’.’ (MR) Tea was an amazingly useful thing. It gave you an excuse to talk to anyone. (MR)
... the brain treacherously does not stop thinking just because you want it to... (MR)
‘“Pretty please with sprinkles on top” is not a recognised method of interrogation!’ (MR)
The trouble with Polly was that she had a mind that asked questions even when she really, really didn’t want to know the answers. (MR)
What goes around, comes around - or stops. (MR)
... that face that could only be called homely.*
* And even then it was the kind of home that had a burned-out vehicle on the lawn. (MR) ‘There is only three things you need to remember, which are, viz: one obey orders two give it to the enemy good and hard three don’t die.’ (MR)
‘It’s very ingenious.’
‘How does it work, then?’ ‘Oh, I didn’t understand what he said. It was all about ... numbers. But it certainly sounded very clever.’ (MR) ‘Special skills?’
‘Stayin’ alive, corporal, come what may.’ (MR) People see what they think is there. (MR)
He was stocky, running to plump, and one of those people who bustle about being helpful in a mildly annoying way, taking over small jobs that you wouldn’t have minded doing for yourself. (MR)
...the place was one of those nowhere villages that existed only in order to avoid the embarrassment of having large empty places on the map. (MR)
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