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Home to all things bookish – by Megan Thomas

10th Oct 2023

The Promise

“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”
2nd Oct 2023

This Ragged Grace

“I like this idea that as we evolve, somewhere deep within us remains a skeletal trace of what came before that builds up in layers, a sediment of the self.”
25th Sep 2023

The Midnight Library

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.”
24th Sep 2023

Pleasure Beach

“Language’s progression mirrors the structure of desire. The. Inability. To. Ever. Get. To. The. Thing. Itself. But. The. Eternal. Desire. To. Try.”
12th Sep 2023

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
2nd Sep 2023

Whatever Happened to Rick Astley

“Whatever happened to Rick Astley? She imagined that he was happily married with children. A record producer, perhaps? That was the usual way with singers, wasn’t it?”
26th Aug 2023

Rise

“A good sportsman exercises self-control. He plays the ball and not the man.”
21st Aug 2023

We Used To Live Here

“But that is just my imagination, and a person can imagine all sorts of things if they take the time to just be creative.”
14th Aug 2023

This Must Be The Place

“We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.”
9th Aug 2023

How To Be Right: In A World Gone Wrong

“Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognise the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.”