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Sumi was Sumi. Spending time with her was like trying to form a close personal relationship with a cloud of butterflies. Pretty—dazzling, even—but not exactly companionable. And some of the butterflies had knives, and that was where the metaphor collapsed.

— Seanan McGuire Come Tumbling Down (2020)

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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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Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.

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