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  1. Public Bookmark 58

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    When it comes right down to it, this doesn’t feel like the start of anything. When they get to each other, out there in the rain, it feels like this is what they’ve always been doing and nothing much has really changed at all.

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    22 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Greta’s smile warmed, pleased. She studied Lupe for another moment, assessing her look and her attitude. “Then we agree,” she said. “Carson’s mine. You’d just have…borrowing privileges.”

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    24 Jan 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    Probably the worst thing is that he’s never met her, Jean Crosby, who’s nothing more than an ephemeral presence at best, a small photograph Harry keeps in his wallet and a stack of letters he faithfully replies to. Harry who loves her as a husband should, who had a shockingly little amount of reserve on that fateful day, taking him apart like it was nothing. Handling him like any of his instruments, confident and capable with John at his mercy.
    Harry had tasted like adrenaline, already so different from the nervous man that had accidentally routed them to France. It had been so easy to forget it all: the war, the missions, the dead boys starting to accumulate in their memories. All too easy to dismiss the ghost of Jean Crosby that hung around when Harry was real and alive and kissing John as fervently as a dying saint’s benediction. And John Brady was only a man, after all.

     

    Poor, foolish Johnny Brady, giving his heart away during a war.

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    01 Nov 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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    “Is it so hard to believe I do it because I'm fond of you?"

    "And is that what you are, Master Barak, fond of me?" Shardlake sprung the question like a trap, like he would do in court.

    A dull red flush spread over Barak's face and he lowered his eyes, Shardlake could see in his working jaw and the turn of his mouth that he had not meant to say it. If this had been a witness he would know he had finally hit the weak point. Barak's pride would never admit to being the one greater in affection.
    ”After a fashion,” he said sullenly and looked away.

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    18 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Harry knocked their shoulders together, briefly.
    “And then who would perform miracles for us, huh? It can’t be you pilots, your heads are big enough as it is.”
    “I don’t work miracles, Cros,” John said quietly. “I just fly her. You’re the one that gets us home,” he added. Harry flushed.
    “I’m just doing my job, Johnny.”

     

    Good luck and 10,000 feet. Harry and Johnny in 1943.

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    16 Aug 2024