“Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.”

— Steven Erikson , book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 13 (p. 399)

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Canadian fantasy author 1959

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