“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
“There is, too, a sort of relief in admitting defeat. Struggling to drag a mountain from my path, acknowledging at last the mountain would remain, lying down beneath the mountain, thankful for the shade of it.”
— Tanith Lee, book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part I “In the Wilderness”, Chapter 2 (p. 234)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
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