“Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.”

— Tad Williams

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 12, “Six Silver Sparrows” (p. 177).

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