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Normally Sarah could still feel the last traces of his body’s heat, held in the fabric of the sheet just as the mattress held his form. But this morning that residue was missing.
“When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“And the children seem ideally matched, they know each other through and through, like brother and sister.” “I doubt if I’d say that made for an ideal match,” said Brother Cadfael honestly.”
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
“The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
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