Saddler hurried out of the tent and headed towards the park gates, lighting a rolled up cigarette. ‘Oi, you dull twat!’ Fagan shouted after him. Saddler turned. ‘Just in case you didn’t realise, this is a fucking crime scene. I’ll kick your
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“When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
― 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
“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
“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
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