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21 " He read an article in a left-leaning paper that took the ad to task for grammar errors and mixed metaphors and other literary crimes, but Jack thought it was cool. "
― Jim Lowe , New Reform (New Reform Quartet #1)
22 " Even sleep couldn’t defeat pain. Pain covers sleep. Pain always wins.Now the romance was well and truly dead between Joseph and Klaudia, it was time to head down the rocky road of mutual emotional destruction. "
23 " It just seemed so unmanly – just like his poetry. He’d rather fight the biggest guy in the club than submit to that much scrutiny. "
24 " Once the battles were fought, with frightening ferocity on Tatum’s part, she soon became the Head Girl of the Damned and the Doomed. "
25 " If anyone caught his eye on the number 31 bus that took him from his run-down estate into the small but vibrant financial hub of the Northwest, in Arlington, he’d give nothing away but a smile. "
26 " Like I said, so what?’‘I think you’d like Miles Davis.’ Sunglasses laughed at the joke. Tatum didn’t get it, but she felt they were toying with her like cats pulling strands from a ball of wool.‘Never fucking heard of him. Like I said, so what? "
27 " My life feels meaningless, and I want it to count for something. "
28 " Being the only girl in this dystopian band of brothers she found it none too difficult to fade away from the family view, but soon she perfected the art of disappearing completely. "
29 " She played with this problem, over and over, in her mind, until she had a political epiphany. Like restless hands fidgeting with the Rubik’s Cube she accidentally lined up the colours of all the faces, and she realised her conflict wasn’t with the races: it was with the genders. "
30 " Her revelations made her feel such a blind fool, as she recalled, but never investigated, all the little bumps her Ma had suffered. "
31 " Superficial, ha! With me, what you see is what you get?’Bill, looked up from his drink, ‘Now that is deep! "
32 " She was still in her late twenties, but the gap made her believe her body clock wasn’t ticking but had actually stopped. "
33 " Examining the tangle of assorted wires and leads, there seemed to be every cable ever made, but none with the right combination. Frustration brought him to the boil, as he yanked and tugged at this unyielding ball. He only succeeded in winding them into ever-tighter knots. "
34 " It was a match made in cyber heaven. "