“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing”
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“Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, “Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.”
― The Last Kingdom
― The Last Kingdom
“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
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people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
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“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
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from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
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