{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/but-corbet-there",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/but-corbet-there.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/but-corbet-there.md",
  "id": "4c98efe6-355b-41be-a2bf-1179285cf074",
  "slug": "but-corbet-there",
  "text": "“But, Corbet, there were things—between us—”\n\n“You imagined many of them. You wanted them to be true, and so they were. But only to you.”",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patricia A. McKillip",
    "slug": "patricia-a-mckillip",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "Winter Rose",
    "slug": "winter-rose",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 242,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "self-deception",
      "slug": "self-deception-2",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip#Winter_Rose_(1996)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:23",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "ff4000b8-b8fc-4e7f-ba3e-1063d720e449",
      "slug": "you-fought-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/you-fought-for",
      "text": "“You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”\n\n“You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.\n\n“I know.” In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. “But I can die.”",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 145,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip#Winter_Rose_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "e3fa1c8d-c3ba-4b7f-9208-e32f40b2a09a",
      "slug": "i-could-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/i-could-not",
      "text": "I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 155,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "memory",
          "slug": "memory",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory"
        },
        {
          "name": "dreams",
          "slug": "dreams",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip#Winter_Rose_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "d1a83ff9-9e0c-440a-b12d-76a11a176bb7",
      "slug": "she-lies-like",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/she-lies-like",
      "text": "She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 211,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip#Winter_Rose_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:23"
    }
  ]
}