“The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.”
Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician
Aneurin Bevan, Vol 1, 1962
1960s
“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”
— Patricia Briggs, book Moon Called
Source: Moon Called
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