We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing towards the ocean that is greater than all things combined. You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Kate Elliott, "Cold Magic" (2010).
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