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1 " choice is the defining factor of independent life. For better or worse. If the parents restrict choice, reserve it, forbid it, their children will remain children for the entirety of their existence. "
― Michelle Sagara , Cast in Oblivion (The Chronicles of Elantra, #14)
2 " Because sometimes saying it—where only you can hear it, but forcing yourself to find the actual words—is helpful. Or at least it has been for some of my tenants. Not all of them, of course; all of you are different individuals. But some found it helpful—almost as if saying it out loud was an exorcism. It released the words instead of allowing them to remain trapped in their thoughts, wearing deeper and deeper grooves. "
3 " ...knowing someone is trustworthy is merely one step in the building of a relationship of any kind. "
4 " Right or wrong is decided on the basis of a significant moment. "
5 " Nightshade—like any living, thinking person—was capable of more than one truth. "
6 " Communication was often like this, though: stumbling, tripping, getting up again. Moving, however clumsily, forward. "
7 " She had a choice; she had chosen to listen. She had offered, wordless and desperate, to help. "
8 " I don’t know what’s happening—but Spike says things are getting worse. She hesitated. "
9 " But home, for us, is each other, no matter where we happen to be. "