The regime had eyes and ears everywhere, in the very court of the exiled King even, it was rumoured, so that a man might barely speak free with his neighbour. This hard-won liberty was a fearful thing.
“commerce was a masculine art in most situations.”
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― The Way of Kings
“It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are – who knows?”
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― Guards! Guards!
“He did not look back. None of them looked back, not even after it was over.”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
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― Rivers of London: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Walk or die, that’s the moral of this story.”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
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