“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”
Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)
“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”
— Melanie Rawn, book Dragon Prince
Source: Dragon Prince
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