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“Fuck the king because you can be sure the king is already fucking you.”

Poverty Labor Exploitation Royalty Monarchies Power Imbalances

Book:The Gallows Pole

Source: The Gallows Pole

“At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so deeply immersed in the here and now - that I forgot who I was. The slate of self was wiped.”

Book:The Offing

Source: The Offing

“Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worlds.”

Historical Fiction Durham Experimental Owls Religious Fiction

Book:Cuddy

Source: Cuddy

“War was an illness in a way, treatable only by the passing of time, and many were stricken until the end of their days.”

War Time Illness

Book:The Offing

Source: The Offing

“The collapse of what once was had been comprised of dozens of gestures, scores of things left unsaid and hundreds of resentments spread over the thousand days that all stacked up to create millions of tiny moments of muffled misery.”

Abuse Rage Endings Unhappy Marriage

Book:Male Tears

Source: Male Tears