"Yes?" She frowned at him, making it clear that just by being here and being a man, he was in the wrong.
“But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
“For here was the station, by the asylum: both on the outskirts, where the Victorians thought they belonged.”
― Border Country
― Border Country
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