“The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.”

— Jack McDevitt

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 22 (p. 190)

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