“What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.”

—  Tanith Lee , book The Storm Lord

Book 5, “The Serpent Wakes” Chapter 21 (p. 286)
The Storm Lord (1976)

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