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All that Shepard'd been through, the strength she'd shown in the face of incomprehensible, indescribable terror, and it was Liara's softness, her persistence, that fractured something within her. And the longer Liara examined her, the more she grew to suspect — with disbelief, but understanding — that this wasn't a surface imperfection: the fault originated somewhere deep. And perhaps it was her doing, perhaps it was a preexisting instability — quiescent until she'd somehow, inadvertently, reached Shepard's core — that was only just now surfacing: her sudden, unexpected breakdown evidence of cumulative failure. And if Liara came at her, gently but inexorably, maybe it was inevitable that she'd wear Shepard down like this. Seeing her crumble here before her, however, was too much to process.
— Somewhere Among the Stars, Chapter 20
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