He still couldn't believe she was dead. She’d been one of those fiercely vital people you thought of as going… — Harry Turtledove
He still couldn't believe she was dead. She’d been one of those fiercely vital people you thought of as going on forever. But life didn't work like that, and war had an obscene power all its own. What it wanted, it took, and an individual’s vitality mattered not at all to it.
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