“First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.”

—  Michael Marshall Smith

Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 27

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British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965

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