“It never ceases to surprise me how few friends the doomed have. One moment they are surrounded by smilingfaces, the next they are uterly friendless.”

—  David Gemmell , book Stormrider

Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 4

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British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006

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