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

— Seanan McGuire Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)

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

In an Absent Dream (2019)

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.

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)

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

Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)

We can’t make things that happened not have happened by wishing that they hadn’t.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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