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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.”
“Mulled ale for the frozen man,
And mulled ale for the weary:
For mulled ale is the body's friend
And makes the sick heart merry.”
― The Long Ships
And mulled ale for the weary:
For mulled ale is the body's friend
And makes the sick heart merry.”
― The Long Ships
“...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
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.”
― March
― March
“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
“[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
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