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The most fundamental parental urge is the urge to nurture and protect. To grieve for a child is to admit ultimate impotence. You can’t protect what goes into the ground. You can’t tuck a blanket around a grave.

— Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths (2001)

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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

Darwinia (1998)

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

Spin (2005)

Strange, isn’t it, how people cling most desperately to a thing when it becomes least useful to them?

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

Vortex (2011)

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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