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“The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand.She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for...”
“And there is good money to be made when things are bad.”
“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her tim...”
“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.”
“There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.”
“I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.”
“The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.”
“War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?”
“I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.”
“All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me”
“I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.”
“We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.”
“It was strange how you didnt realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.”
“There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.”
“They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.”
“It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring you just had to get up more than you fell down.”
“We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.”
“You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.”
“It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.”
“Every time Nyx thought shed gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.”
