“Old folks called the winter a harbinger of worse to come. But old folks always see today’s weather as more harsh than that of yore. Or milder. Never, never the same.”

—  Glen Cook , book The White Rose

Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 8, “The Barrowland” (p. 482)

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