“If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.”

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 16

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American children's writer 1924–2007

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