“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”
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Frank Herbert 158
American writer 1920–1986Related quotes
“The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.”
v, line 409 (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, [1985] 1989).

“Victorious Carthage measures the downfall of Rome by all the heap of gold that was torn from the left hands of the slain.”
Congesto laevae quodcumque avellitur auro
metitur Latias victrix Carthago ruinas.
Book VIII, lines 675–676
This refers to the mass of rings Hannibal plundered from the Roman knights slain in the Battle of Cannae.
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