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As is the case throughout India there was no limit to the manpower available to authorities at the stadium—another named after Jawaharlal Nehru—and scores of workers armed with the most primitive of mops, brooms, cloths and squeegees squelched back and forth to ready the ground for play and so prevent the only abandonment of the tournament.

"While network stations in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane carried the entire match as beamed by Doordarshan, the state-run and only television broadcaster, viewers in Sydney and Melbourne were screened the Sunday night movie Unfaithfully Yours, featuring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski, instead of the England innings. Border and his men were indignant." On broadcast of 1987 World Cup Final.

But the unfortunate part of the developed world is the undeveloped mind, not willing to learn and soak in new experiences.

I fear that would be a rash hope. They like great warriors in the North, and great warriors rarely make great leaders. Men without fear are men without imagination. Men who use their heads for smashing through things rather than thinking. They celebrate spiteful, prideful, wrathful men here, and pick the most childish of the crowd for leaders.

‘Regrets,’ as he once told this unworthy reporter, with a boundless sadness plainly stamped into that noble visage, ‘are the cost of the business.’

I would prefer that my arse was as tight as it was twenty years ago. We must tackle the world as it is. 😂

The world’s nothing but a mean bully, that’s a fact. Even when you’ve big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes.

Times like these reveal a man for what he truly is. For a while Temple had convinced himself he was a righteous man, but it is easy to be virtuous before your virtue is put to the test. Like a camel turd baked in the sun, beneath the pious crust he was the same stinking, self-serving coward he had always been.

The best you could do with fear was act like you had none.

In her experience, people were like sharks, blood in the water only made them hungry.

Hell was what Colonel Glokta always gave his opponents, whether in the fencing circle, on the battlefield, or in the far more savage context of a social engagement.

Gaynor and Rose had reminded me of the importance of surrounding myself with people who supported and encouraged me and my desires. This encouragement had been missing for far too long, and I was ready to reclaim it.

I nibbled on the final bite of my croissant, the irony not lost on me; while I came to London because I was hurt by someone else’s secrets, now I was the one hiding things.

Vengeance is its own medicine.

That is why my mother never opened the book in your hands. Because saving lives with the gifts of the earth, Eliza, is as good as magick.

The best apothecary was one who knows intimately the despair felt by her patient, whether in body or heart.

Loneliness kills Stone Men quicker than the plague does.

Incorporating unexpected factors into her plans gets easier with experience. Everything’s a weapon if you’re willing to use it, she tells herself.

The problem with alchemists is that you can’t bribe people who can turn base matter into gold—in this case, by selling weapons and cure-alls overseas, but the principle’s the same. Still, he’ll find a way.

His fingers probe it, pick it apart, and find an unexpected treasure. A little golden ring. The undertakers must have missed it. An old ring, bought in youth, lost in the fatty folds of middle age. Humans, he thinks, get weaker as they age, slower. Ghouls are different.

Sport is of no intrinsic importance, and seen in perspective, it is quite meaningless. But it is this artificiality that makes us infuse it with the kind of ethics that we do not expect in other areas of human endeavour. This is our way of giving sports meaning.

It never stops hurting. But that's how you know they meant something. The pain is a reminder of the good times, not the bad.

"Cabbage, old man, if you save someone's life you better be prepared to take responsibility."

Really loving these vegetable substitutes for swear words!

It's alright to be scared. Fear doesn't make you weak, it makes you human.

Guang always said that immortality was a generous reward for merely hunting yokai, but he had it backwards. Immortality wasn't the reward. It was the price Haruto had to pay.

Sometimes, he wondered which god he had insulted that made people cling to him so tightly.

But it's idiotic. Not swearing doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you a sanctimonious tit. Besides, you do swear. The words you use aren't important. It's the intent that matters. Substituting vegetables for swearwords doesn't mean you're not cursing.

These were the worst moments for Guang, watching his friend fight yokai and knowing he was useless to help. He knew Haruto wouldn't die, knew that he couldn't. Guang had seen proof of it many times, but he also knew every wound hurt. And there was always the chance, no matter how slim, that Haruto's immortality could fail him.

Even the people that lived here bundled up against the cold. Haruto just didn't feel it. Perhaps he felt nothing.
"A man so broken, his curse untold. He seeks not redemption, no way to atone." Guang smiled and decided to commit that one to memory.

"Victory is worth any cost. Defeat is a coin with no value," Guang said.