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Katherine understood rules. Understood them down to the marrow of her bones. Rules were the reason the world could work at all. Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.

— Seanan McGuire In an Absent Dream (2019)

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There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)

There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.

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This wasn’t the first time Cora had met people who thought their ideas about how the world should be were the only right ones.

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If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.

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