If I asked you for the answer to a riddle....

[IfIAskedYouARiddle]

What would you answer?

I'm reading a book at the moment, and the heroine is asked a riddle, and even before I got to the end of it, I thought... oh its xxxx because its always xxxx

I won't put the answer yet, but what would be the answer to the riddle?

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What riddle? They don’t all have the same answer, is that what you’re saying?!

Two guesses.
Man or a river

An egg
A mirror
A man
A needle

A candle, an egg, a book, or light.

Are you being deliberately vague?

I meant in a "it's always this answer to a riddle in a book"

But after posting it I asked my ds (23) and he said something different, so what do I know?

This is riddle.

There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow…

Yes.

It made sense in my head, but I should have thought it out more first.

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Love.