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“You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”
“You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.
“I know.” In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. “But I can die.”

— Patricia A. McKillip Winter Rose (1996)

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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.

Winter Rose (1996)

Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

Winter Rose (1996)

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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