"There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought"

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If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

— Garth Nix