“… and within five minutes I'd lost interest.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One
word. Necromancer.”
— Kelley Armstrong, book The Summoning
Source: The Summoning
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