Martin Edwards Quotes

#1. Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.

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#2. She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

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#3. Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.

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#4. Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

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#5. There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been
she realized now
a huge part of his appeal ...

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#6. Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

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#7. He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.

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#8. To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.

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#9. The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything.

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#10. Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

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#11. Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

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#12. The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right.

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#13. Fantastique, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbat'. "Though

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#14. Mystery*File website, have revealed that Farjeon wrote no

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#15. One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

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#16. For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.

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#17. He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

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#18. However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

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#19. Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

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