“He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, “But you had a right to be angry.”
“Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.””

—  Patricia A. McKillip, book The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 12, p. 322.

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