That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.


Winterlands (ed. Del Rey, 1999) - ISBN: 9780739402788

Barbara Hambly Quotes

That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives...

That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives...

That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives...

That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives...