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41 " Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate. "
― Michael Marshall Smith , Everything You Need
42 " Everything you’ve done, everything you’ve seen, everything you’ve become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don’t bring the whole of yourself with you, you’ll never see the sun again. "
― Michael Marshall Smith , Only Forward
43 " Everything you do is a one-way street. "
44 " The furniture was white and the carpet red – it looked like the inside of someone's mouth. Three "
― Michael Marshall Smith , Spares
45 " I said this was his story. I didn’t say I believed it. I don’t. You shouldn’t either. That would be best. "
46 " would be on top of me like a ton of heavy things. "
47 " Power that affects nothing is mere vanity. "
― Michael Marshall Smith , Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
48 " Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If "
49 " I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote. "
50 " You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there. "
51 " we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well, "
52 " Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through. "
53 " I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired. "
54 " Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Sometimes it’s just a huge pain in the arse, "
55 " It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go. "
56 " If a door isn’t there then you can’t hope to go through it, but if it’s there but always locked, then you’re trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut. "
57 " Humans and stories need each other. "
58 " And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most. "
59 " One of life’s dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem … ordinary. "
60 " What?’ ‘Wherever there are good people,’ he said, ‘there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn’t want to follow where you’re leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances. "