He had sworn on his father's honour, his mother's life, his brother's masculinity, his sister's purity and… — Ian McDonald
He had sworn on his father's honour, his mother's life, his brother's masculinity, his sister's purity and his prophet's beard that he would never set foot there again. God, knowing people, thinks little of honour or purity or even life, but vows made on his prophet he loves to confound.
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