"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to."
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Source: Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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