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1 " She'd been cross so much of the time and often about small things. Looking back at herself, she thought that her crossness was like a shapeless overcoat, covering loneliness, and it wasn't the old loneliness she'd felt after her mother died, or even an adult version of it, but something different and more punishing. "
― Rosamund Lupton , The Quality of Silence
2 " His last night, the sky was cloudless with a full moon lighting the snowy terrain in an opalescent blue light. He remembered Yasmin telling him that the moonlight that reaches Earth is mainly the reflected light from the sun with some starlight and Earthlight thrown in. She'd told him that the light wasn't really blue, it was because of the Purkinje effect, a flaw in the human eye, that made it so. And he'd thought that what we know is filtered by our flaws, and sometimes turned more beautiful by them. "
3 " The first documentary I watched on hydraulic fracturing was Gasland by Josh Fox. Since then I’ve read, watched and listened to many articles, reports, speeches and blogs about fracking but Gasland remains the stand-out piece for me. The Sky is Pink by Josh Fox and the Gasland team can be seen on Vimeo and YouTube. "
4 " And she’d no longer been weightless with loneliness. "
5 " And he'd thought that what we know is filtered by our flaws, and sometimes turned more beautiful by them. "
6 " ...he had stayed in love with a girl who was no longer there, like one of those dead stars she’d once told him about, whose light we still see not because we are living in the star’s future but because we are looking at the star’s past. "
7 " It shocked her to realise that for years she'd felt bland, dull, even to herself. Around her, everyone else's characters were clearly defined, the borders of their personalities etched sharply, but not hers... Somewhere along the line she'd lost the idea of herself. "
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9 " Cold felt like it was a hunter and she was warm prey. "
