“He picked the rock back up. “Do you believe that it floated?”
“No!” I sulked, rubbing my temples.
“Good. It didn’t. Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don’t exist.””
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 10, “Alar and Several Stones” (p. 78)
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