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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
“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
“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
“... 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
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