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“Life's so simple, thought Jill, if only you can strike the right note. All it needed was a little give-and-take. She'd often said so.”

Life Simple Give And Take Right Note

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.”

Sun Sky Colors Queues Bruise Apricot

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.”

Life Writing Books Life S Too Short

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.”

Cancer Stomach Colon Colostomy

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.”

Dream Passion Cocoon Slept Untroubled In Each Other S Arms Wrinkly

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“Jack amused himself by visualising her head creaking open on hinges concealed by her tartan Alice band, and releasing all the furry folk with which she populated her tales.”

Writing Tales Populated Visualising

Book:Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

Source: Blue Skies & Jack and Jill