“… imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.”
Lightsong the Bold
Warbreaker (2009)
“Men who were used to subordinating others to their wills were invariably surprised by rebellion—as though this imaginary prison they created was, in fact, real.”
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 32 (p. 460)
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