“I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.”

— Tanith Lee , book Quest for the White Witch

Book Two, Part II “White Mountain”, Chapter 3 (p. 283)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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British writer 1947–2015

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“I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.”

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