“Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay , book Tigana

Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 8 (p. 225)

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Canadian author of fantasy fiction 1954

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“Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”

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