“Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.”

—  Tanith Lee

Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 2, “The Chalice” (p. 16)

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