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1 " He looked like a circus acrobat who had been reassigned to bedpans and taken to them like a duck to water. He didn't miss a beat while they talked and his military bed-making was hypnotic to watch (...) He stripped beds, bundled dirty sheets, shook out fresh ones and then wound mattresses in them as neat and as tight as if he ws working in the gift-wrap department of the Great Pyramid at Giza. M. wondered how the hell the old folk managed to fight their way between the top and bottoms sheets every night, and had a mental image of residents spending years shivering above the covers, too frail to gain entry to their won beds. "
― Belinda Bauer , Darkside (Exmoor Trilogy #2)
2 " Dumb people were a breeze and Lynne Twitchett was right up there with the breeziest he’d encountered "
3 " Ahead of the tin was all craning white heads and expectant muttering, behind it was silence and crumbs. Lynne "
4 " Reynolds peered into a large aquarium. “They’ve got a Japanese fighting fish in here. Beautiful.” Marvel ignored him. Ridiculous hobby, fish keeping. Making yourself a slave to guppies. "