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“A waste of time discussing ‘God-things.’ Neh?” “If you seek facts, yes, Sire.”
We have a saying that a harigata’s like a man but better because it’s exactly like his best part but without his worst parts.
“Nothing can ever be solved in Japan except by Japanese methods.”
“I’d gamble a boatload of fish against a bucket of shit
At the moment I need your touchiness and your anger and your violence.
I got that
Japaneseness
“I expect no apology from you. You’ve your way, I’ve mine. We can never meet.”
All comes to him who waits—and works.
“I’ll fetch the pigeons myself.
The weak had to be food for the strong, the strong pawns for the very strong.
“Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That’s what makes them different from us—they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal them to gain an advantage.
she dismissed his truculent insolence and began to play him.
I’ve been called truculent
know the whole point of life. Neh?” “Yes.” The eyes glittered strangely. “What is it?” “Duty, discipline, and death,”
Blackthorne drank and gagged on the brew that smelled like ancient bird droppings and mildewed kelp mixed with fermenting leaves on a hot summer’s day. The taste was worse.
don’t come near me. Priests make me nervous.”
Still do
‘Lust will not keep—something must be done about it.’ ”
