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Achyfi
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7th Dec, 2012 10:24:37 PM
Quote Mine, or perhaps in-universe Manipulative Editing?
(Thank god for internal monologue.)
Is there a trope when a work of fiction uses some saying or quote, but not completely, because the words absent are important for the story: