“If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I’m sorry if that inconveniences you.”

—  Tad Williams

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 34, “Forgotten Swords” (p. 549).

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