veneer quotes

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly loveöthat stuff is all fantasyand veneer† You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.

-Galloway,Janice
  Foreign Parts, ch.7.

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