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“Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“Thanks heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“For one who grew to manhood believing himself to be an orphan," Eleanor said, "you are surprisingly familiar with the weeds found in family gardens."
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"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Cruel as the Grave
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"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Cruel as the Grave
“[T]his is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation on wings, while you arrive steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“What proportion of the peasantry was well off and what poor is judged by what they bequeathed, and since the poorest had nothing to leave, they remain mute. For no other class is that famous goal of the historian, wie es wirklich war (how it really was), so elusive.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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