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“And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm.”
“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.”
“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”
“People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.”
“Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.”
“For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.”
“Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.”
“Perceptions? Yesugei didn't give a goat's toenail about perceptions, but society was society. ...'Who gives a billy's balls what one or two wives have to say?''Quite, father.' This was strong langu...”
“Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.”
