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The Women
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“Thanks,” he said. “For what?” “Just being here, I guess. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to save a man in ’Nam.”
“...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.”
― The Long Ships
― The Long Ships
“[Mahler:] I thought you were on sick leave for the rest of the month.
I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.”
― The Return
I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.”
― The Return
“Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.”
― The Ministry of Special Cases
― The Ministry of Special Cases
“They had somehow taken a group of women from the town through the (concentration) camps to show them what had been right there, and Tommy's brother said that although some of the women wept, some of them put their chins up, and looked angry, as if they refused to be made to feel bad.”
― Anything Is Possible
― Anything Is Possible
“For man can triumph over man, and weapon over weapon; against the gods we can pit sacrifice, and against witchcraft, contrary magic; but against bad luck no man has anything to oppose.”
― The Long Ships
― The Long Ships
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