“The thing about history is you don’t know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.” “That’s the sort o’ thing you hear from folk who know they’re on the wrong side.”
― The Wisdom of Crowds
― The Wisdom of Crowds
“She sat in silence as he limped out, teeth gritted. Click, tap, grunt. Click, tap, grunt. That mixture of cunning, ruthlessness, burning ambition and constant pain was far from unfamiliar.
She had heard it said that every woman ends up marrying her father. Until that moment, she had always imagined herself the exception.”
― The Wisdom of Crowds
She had heard it said that every woman ends up marrying her father. Until that moment, she had always imagined herself the exception.”
― The Wisdom of Crowds
“I am made of memories.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“But he’s from England.’ Jakob of Thorn ushered him over the threshold. ‘They’re all devils there.”
― The Devils
― The Devils
“nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.”
― The Wisdom of Crowds
― The Wisdom of Crowds
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