““I don’t need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth,” Selendra said, with what dignity she could.
“Why, that’s the very definition of a radical,” he retorted.”

—  Jo Walton, book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 15, section 56 (p. 260)

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