“The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.”

— Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book III: The Castle of Llyr (1966), Chapter 19

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American children's writer 1924–2007

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