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Any established power system grows decadent over time, if there is nothing with the strength or motivation to challenge it, and if it refuses to challenge itself.

— Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993)

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Never rush into anything—unless into is the direction you want to go.

The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993)

He thought about spiders, twisting thread into beautiful symmetry, taming chaos with ordered nets that greeted the dawn, hung with globes of dew that caught and held cores of sunlight, and tiny images of the world.

The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993)

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