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“He may well build other nests, which he will display to any female who enters his territory. If she likes any of his pads she will move in, decorate, and bear his children. A slapper seeking a Premier League husband could not be more shallow.”
― Meadowland: the private life of an English field
― Meadowland: the private life of an English field

“He may well build other nests, which he will display to any female who enters his territory. If she likes any of his pads she will move in, decorate, and bear his children. A slapper seeking a Premier League husband could not be more shallow. Mind you, he is no moral giant. As soon as he has ensconced one female, he will try to tempt another Jenny Wren into one of his spare nests, where she too will give birth to his progeny. The little cock then travels between his families, a bigamous commercial traveller in a 1930s thriller.”
― Meadowland: the private life of an English field
― Meadowland: the private life of an English field

“In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible”
― Thomas the Rhymer
― Thomas the Rhymer

“Again she felt, as a fact without hostility, the sterility of men, for if she did not do it nobody would do it,”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“Back in the 1840s, when Richard Owen first described giant bones in England, he named them Dinosauria: terrible lizards.”
― The Lost World
― The Lost World
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