“She caught up with their host in time to hear him say, “So Frederick’s son gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great. Who was pretty great. Big man. Huge. Made Russia great again. Couple years later, Peter sent Frederick an ivory goblet and fifty-five giants for his collection.”
― One-Eyed Jacks
― One-Eyed Jacks
“This thing is huge! Big league!” Duncan Towers’s Queens accent was so thick it almost sounded like he said bigly as he waved expansively to the whole chamber. “But it wasn’t quite big enough for my penthouse, so we added a couple panels to expand it.”
― One-Eyed Jacks
― One-Eyed Jacks
“Her relationship with her daughters-in-law was the only stain on Nanny Ogg’s otherwise amiable character. Sons-in-law were different—she could remember their names, even their birthdays, and they joined the family like overgrown chicks creeping under the wings of a broody bantam. And grandchildren were treasures, every one. But any woman incautious enough to marry an Ogg son might as well resign herself to a life of mental torture and nameless domestic servitude.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
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