“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

—  Larry Niven, book A World Out of Time

Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)

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