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1 " You must live in peace,” he told us. “We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark. "
― David Almond , The Tightrope Walkers
2 " There’s nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you’re different, and you’ll be grown and gone afore I know.” He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. “And this is hardly a place that’ll draw you back,” he said. "
3 " I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then. "