“Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.”

—  Matthew Stover, book Blade of Tyshalle

(VIII.4) Del Rey, p. 284
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Variant: Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.

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