“Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.”

—  Tad Williams

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 636).

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