Five years Quote by Malorie Blackman

“Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?” quote by Malorie Blackman — Download Open image

“Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?”

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“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I was looking my last at the lad I still remembered. I was right. When I saw him again, it was five years later, and not in Athens. He was tanned like the thong of a javelin, and as…

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