“The Radisha kicked over a pile of books. “I’ve never felt so powerless. I don’t like the feeling.”
Smoke shrugged. “Welcome to the world where the rest of us live.””

— Glen Cook , book Shadow Games

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 29, “Smoke’s Hideout” (p. 153)

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American fiction writer 1944

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