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Amalia was what people might have described as “a strong personality”—a woman with fierce opinions who appeared to fear just about nothing. She showed no sign of caring whether people liked her, and no doubt many did not.
“People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“It was not just because he was old, and looked old to them, but because he was a pensioned ghost from the strange past, a pointless survivor, an old soldier of forgotten wars. A remnant, with a torn gansey for a soul.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“To him this was the whole point of retirement, of existence – to be stationary, happy and useless.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“The burden of getting older was borne alone,”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
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