“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”

—  Juliet Marillier, book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

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New Zealand fiction writer 1948

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