“That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”

—  Pat Cadigan

Source: Short fiction, Naming Names (1992), p. 389

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