“A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once…We can never truly know the path we have not walked.”

—  Guy Gavriel Kay, book Tigana

Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 79)

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Canadian author of fantasy fiction 1954

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