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I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

— Patricia A. McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

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Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

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Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

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Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

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She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?

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I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

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