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But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
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- Cassandra Clare
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- Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1973; activity date not established; Wikidata Q235364, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235364 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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