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“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”
“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”
“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”
“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”
“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”
“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”
“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”
“Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in ...”
“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? ...”
