May your face, and those of people you love, never be creased into grief-maps.   What a vivid image of sorrow.

‘He shook his head and his face creased, a grey grief-map.’

Source: Beowulf, Kevin Crossley-Holland, illus. by Charles Keeping (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (1982)), p. 25

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