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With care and polish, a good dream could give hope and comfort for years and years.
Truth
“When we are all gone, there you will be. Remember us with kindness then.”
It was the brutal reality of the sword, as Tellius knew as well as anyone. If you could not defend yourself, you owned nothing, not even your life.
‘Chin up now,’ Deeds said. ‘It doesn’t hurt to show the world a nice smile, especially before you kick its teeth in.’
Ha!
‘It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll – I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’
There was many a slip between cup and lip, his mother had always said. A hanging postponed was a hanging avoided.
So many things rely and are decided by fine margins.
Mark Lawrence,
