The King's Shadow Quotes

“Wordsworth felt horrified and utterly alone. ‘How oft, amid those overflowing streets, / Have I gone forward with the crowd, and said / Unto myself, “The face of every one / That passes by me is a mystery!”’5”
― Edmund Richardson, The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

“One archaeologist noticed two rude lines of verse, scratched on the rock wall, in front of their very noses: If any fools this high samootch explore, Know Charles Masson has been here before.”
― Edmund Richardson, The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria