“She—and I—were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices.”

—  Glen Cook, book Soldiers Live

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 38, “The Taglian Territories: The Dandha Presh” (p. 502)

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