You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, a…

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You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. ✨ Stephen King (2016). The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, p.175, Simon and Schuster
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You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. ✨ Stephen King (2016). The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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