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“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
― Nicola Griffith, Hild

“Raseed thinks he is ‘wise beyond his years.’ I will tell you this, girl: There is no such thing as being wise beyond your years. One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.”
― Saladin Ahmed, Throne of the Crescent Moon

“Sometimes she wished they could all be young again. How foolish children are, she thought, always to be longing to grow up. Being grown up was not at all a pleasant business.”
― Mary Balogh, Courting Julia