‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’


“A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid:
Once for a simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.”
― The Name of the Wind
Once for a simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.”
― The Name of the Wind

“Nicholas said, ‘I hear he’s ordered two million bricks for rebuilding that crumbling old family place of his in Wiltshire – what’s it called, Wolf’s Hole?’ ‘Wolf Hall. All paid for by the public purse, empty though it is.”
― Tombland
― Tombland
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