“Do not thank me for saving your life. You do not realize yet what I have saved it for.”

— Michael Moorcock, book The Jewel in the Skull

Book 3, Chapter 3 “The Warrior in Jet and Gold” (p. 113)
The Jewel in the Skull (1967)

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