But 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.
( Barbara Hambly )
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