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Between the Bridge and the River

Name: Between the Bridge and the River
Author: Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson

Between the Bridge and the River is a novel written by Craig Ferguson.

“The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Like many of her sex, Sophie was fiercely competitive with other women, working on the crackpot theory that if she could be better in some way, men would like her more, respect her. Make her happy. She never cottoned on that the men she was attracted to, the men who found her attractive, didn’t like women.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“That’s the thing about terrorism – it works. Especially for the terrorists – they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“High school is tough on anyone, an absolute rule of the Universe being that if high school is not a buttockclenchingly awkward, emotionally difficult, and unpleasant time of your life, then the rest of it will be a crushing disappointment. Academic success is desirable, popularity (the only thing that most students really desire) is not. Those who excel socially in high school are truly damned. The homecoming queen does indeed bear the mark of the beast.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
Variant: Change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.

“Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.”

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“Time is only linear for engineers and referees.”

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“Like most sharks, Margaret liked to think of herself as a victim of the cruel sea.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“They could have gotten help for this infertility but they believed that interfering with the reproductive process, even if it was faulty, was anti-God. It was against His plan. It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It’s camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of “what if” when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Fraser’s mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo-intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place.”

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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Always laugh second.”

Craig Ferguson book Between the Bridge and the River

Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

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