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Maggie Gee

  • Sushma Devihas quoted9 months ago
    ‘If a human life is described with enough particularity, the universal will begin to speak through it.’
    Kenjo Yoshino, Covering
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    our billion years ago was the real beginning o
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    Four billion years ago was the real beginning of this story. Long before the cliffs and the crows, long before humans, love and hatred. Long before there was sea between us and Europe. Long before our town was built in a cradle between two cliff tops.
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    Ravens are messengers, omens who perched on the shoulders of old Norse gods and pointed to past and future. Ravens, the birds who remember.
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    didn’t look quite human. Everything was slightly shifted, as if in a drawing.
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    ‘I hear you,’ said Winston, with his shy, intelligent, winning smile, pushing his halo of dark curly hair back from his forehead and looking them one by one in the eyes.
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    who could say ‘No’ to Winston? Who was rumoured to be so sympathetic to others because he himself had a tragic family history – a twin brother who died, some
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    someone said, but ‘His uncle was murdered. By
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    . By a racist. Famous case,’ someone else claimed.
  • m41466836has quoted4 months ago
    ut Belinda Birch hadn’t left. She stood there behind an armchair in the corner of Winston’s office, pulling at her bleached blonde hair which she daily tortured into a thin tight ponytail, the style she had worn twenty years ago when, with her neat, pointy features and tiny waist, she had won Margate Festival Princess.
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