A very good one. :handgestures-thumbupleft: It rang a bell but wasn’t sure…
Is it from Nation?
Here it goes another quote from the latest book I rereading…
“When one has been ruler of this city as long as I have,” he said, “one gets to know with sad certainty that whenever some well-meaning soul begins a novel enterprise they always, with some kind of uncanny foresight, site it at the point where it will do maximum harm to the fabric of reality."
"Don't you come the bein'-tactful-to-old-people to me, my gel," said Granny, prodding her with her stick. "I bin out in deep snow before you was even thought of."