“It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“He was a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.”
— Winston S. Churchill, book The World Crisis
Concerning Admiral von Spee’s East Asia Squadron
The World Crisis, 1911–1914 : Chapter XIII (On The Oceans), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 295
The World Crisis (1923–1931)
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