...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, Spoken by John Aversin, Dragonsbane
