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“He would walk down the hallway and people’s eyes would follow him, like he was a serial killer, or worse.”

Book:Normal People

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“Once a year the Hattifatteners collect there before setting out again on their endless foraging expedition round the world. They come from all points of the compass, silent and serious with their small, white empty faces, and why they hold this yearly meeting it is difficult to say, as they can neither hear nor speak, and have no object in life but the distant goal of their journey's end. Perhaps they like to have a place where they feel at home and can rest a little and meet friends.”

Drifting Roaming Drifters Foraging Restless Spirits Hattifatteners

Book:Finn Family Moomintroll

Source: Finn Family Moomintroll

“Mostly the restless people of the valleys climb the tough peaks of the mountains! The rest, the peaceful ones always stay in the valleys! Adventure is the invention of restless minds!”

Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Valleys Mountains Adventures Adventure Quotes Restless Mind Restless Spirits Adventure Quotations Valleys And Hills

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend’s house.”

Ghosts Romantic Fantasy Restless Spirits

Author:Kathy Bryson

“I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!”

Ghosts Fairies Romantic Fantasy Restless Spirits

Book:Restless Spirits

Source: Restless Spirits

“It wasn’t one event, but a series of events followed by years of research adjudicated by panels of experts and committees of laypeople until a decision was finally made: we’ve been going about handling dead people all wrong.”

Funeral Dead Ghosts Burial Wake Casket Restless Spirits Deceased People

Book:Lay Her Ghosts to Rest

Source: Lay Her Ghosts to Rest

“Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.”

Senseless Death

Book:People of the Book

Source: People of the Book

“His friends had been destroyed for no reason he could think of. They had been destroyed like most people were destroyed. By just being in the wrong place. After all of that development and growing and cultivating and caution and survivable self-destruction and failure and regeneration and struggling and coping, they had just walked through the wrong bunch of bloody trees. And that was that.”

Life Death Senseless Death

Author:Adam Nevill

“Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.”

Mixed Metaphor

Book:Diary

Source: Diary

“The internet is nothing but a jumble of nonsense, an atrocious mixed metaphor. It’s not meant to be understood. First and foremost, it’s a web that you surf. What the hell does that even mean? It not only defies sense but the very laws of physics! And now, apparently, it also contains a cloud. And this is something that’s supposed to be secure? That which looks solid but in fact is not, something literally as thin as air? Perfect!”

Humor Tech The Internet Web 2 0 Mixed Metaphor The Cloud

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“It is these guardians of the medium who have always clipped architecture’s wings are the moment the buds were about to burst open and who have mercilessly pruned back the roots of the medium so that they would not break open the concrete pavement.”

Mixed Metaphor

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

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