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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 4h

"It was almost surreal, though surreal wasn’t quite the word. Transcendental, that was it. He had achieved an inner peace, the like of which he’d never known.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #BlueSkyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 1d

“And then he moved like smoke down the hallway and up the stairs, where he locked himself in the bathroom, and made a quiet call with a phone he shouldn’t have had.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #BlueSkyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 4d

“The look she bestowed upon him would have stuck six inches out the back of a more sensitive man.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #witty #fiction #spynovel #BlueSkyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 5d

“Unregarded, then, and off the leash, she lit a cigarette, and dragged a lungful of sweet poison into her system. Like most pleasures, this one diminished the more you indulged in it.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #witty

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 5d

We're quite enjoying Slow Horses at the moment! It's such interesting writing

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 6d

“It wasn’t long after nine. A watery sunshine split over London; a hint of good weather to come, if you were in an optimistic mood.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller #cold #witty #optimistic

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 7d

“If River had inherited anything from the man sitting with him, it was this obstinate sense that you should see the course you’d chosen to its end.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller #cold #witty #stubborn

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 8d

“To pass for real in the world of the web she’d had to forget everything she’d ever known about grammar, wit, spelling, manners and literary criticism.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller #cold #witty #wit

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 11d

“Half of the future is buried in the past.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller #cold #witty #wit #wisdom #laguage

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 12d

“The desk hid Lamb’s paunch, though hiding it wasn’t enough. Lamb could be behind a closed door, and his paunch would remain evident.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller #cold #witty #wit

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 13d

“Which in a world of secrets and legends, was all it took to give a name to Jackson Lamb’s new kingdom; a place of yellows and greys, where once all was black and white.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #fiction #thriller

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 14d

“An empty milk bottle has stood in its shadow so long, city lichen has bonded it to the pavement.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #novel #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity #fiction #thriller #espionagenovel #urban #urbandecay #Barbican

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 15d

“Stopping, he pretended to check his watch; a manoeuvre indistinguishable from actually checking his watch. Commuters washed round him like water round a rock…”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #novel #spy #newbook #slowhorses #writersky #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 17d

“However wracked by human folly, Colombia’s mountains, rivers and jungles are a source of inspiration to anyone who lives among them. Their sheer abundance is an affirmation of life at its most elemental…”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#quote #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 19d

“Until those hopes are realised, it will continue to simmer with accumulated frustration and resentment.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #hopes

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 20d

“While it was often sad and always sentimental, it had no room for existential angst.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #angst #existentialism #sentimental

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 21d

“The faithful sat or stood all over the cemetery, listening attentively. When an old woman took to the microphone and began to sing a plaintive fold song, they sang along.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquote #writersky #travel #explore #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 22d

“I woke up and tried to get my bearings. I was lying in bed in a windowless room, lit by a fluorescent strip on the ceiling.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #travel #wanderlust #exploration #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 25d

“The FARC, the Army and the politicians all claim Bolívar as their own. Indeed, listening to their high-flown rhetoric, I was often hard pressed to tell them apart.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity #Bolívar

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 26d

“Behind every sophisticated, culturally sensitive foreigner, Carmen seemed to suggest, lurked a libertino — a narco tourist — who was only there for the cheap cocaine.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity #write

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 27d

“Lengerke died broke and broken by the land he had come to call home. His vision and dedication had come to nothing, ‘but it is beautiful and it seems it cannot be otherwise.’”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #writersky #travelwriting #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 28d

“‘Mortality,’ she said to me, ‘like everything else, is just a matter of time.’”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #nonfiction #wisdom #mortality

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · 29d

“It was a sad song, which he wrapped up with the line ‘mi caballito es mi mejor compañero' — my little horse is my best friend.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity #nonfiction

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Oct 3

“The present, it seems, demands their undivided attention.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia #BlueskyWritingCommunity

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Dwindling Cow @dwindlingcow.bsky.social · Oct 2

“There was no sign of human life to appeal to: no mountain huts or roads; no dogs; not even a telegraph wire to follow.”

From Short Walks from Bogotá, a book by Tom Feiling (2012)

#bookquotes #booksky #writersky #travelwriting #travel #Bogotá #Colombia

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