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“It was during those moments that he realized that he experienced true happiness. Whereas big events - like when he graduated or got married to Maria or learned he would be a father - brought worries along with the happiness.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Now my sisters and I no longer lie around in the hay talking. We aren't all in the same place the way we were last year and other years. And when we happen to be together it's as if there is a new awkwardness, as if we had betrayed one another by doing our own thing.

Certainly some day the awkwardness will pass, though time will never undo the betrayal.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Also, I want to be able to describe the brilliance of the world just before the sun sets, when it falls on the grass, and how green the grass looks, and all the other beautiful things I've seen, for it's a shame for them to last only as long as I am looking at them.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
“There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After