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"This is a world in which everything that comes to an end may be ending forever; it is well to complete every encounter with all the motions of grace, to give expression to every kindness, every gratitude, to make the clearest declaration of love. Better to give too readily than to keep back gifts for another meeting, when there is nothing certain even about tomorrow, and what is withheld now may wither away unused, divorced forever from the creature whose due it was and who had need of it."

-Edith Pargeter