“If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.”

—  Glen Cook, book Soldiers Live

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 2, “An Abode of Ravens: When the Baobhas Sang” (p. 367)

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