“It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.”

— Jack Vance, Dying Earth

Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 3, "T'Sais"

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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