Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories;

Robert Galbraith

Tags: memories ruins

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He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.

Willa Cather

Tags: history sadness struggle obligation ruins

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Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Simona Panova

Tags: fear strength present power strong romance fiction weak weakness mystery force self-image play suspense castle gothic ruin queen young-adult powerful pretend nobody mysterious image destroy mask king everyone ghost general ruins inside outside destroyed everybody abandon gothic-romance stronghold fortress freya no-one devastated cardew fort

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