Tag: booker prize
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Never be ashamed of your tears. Cry and everyone knows you’re alive.”
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Milkman
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you…
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Quichotte
“Normal doesn’t feel so normal to me,” I tell him. “It’s normal to feel that way,” he replies.”
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Never Let Me Go
“The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
