“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 69)
“And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.”
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"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it." by Ilona Andrews?
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