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Tell me, Mrs. Mayhew, have you ever dreamed of a better world?" "Who hasn't?" "Anyone who profits by keeping the world as it is.

Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.

as always, the story was the compelling thing, worth all of its suffering to find out the ending

Only a fool blames the dealer

The hawk ripped out his jugular, spraying the morning sunlight with a fine mist of blood.

When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.

Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords;

Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open.

The future cannot be divorced from the past.

If they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it.

There's a better world out there, so close we can almost touch it.

We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done

Pain only disables the weak.

Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men.

Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before.

You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable.

She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain.

Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement

Lady, if you don't wake up, I'm going to have you baptized.

We have trust, Lady, you and I?"
"I trust you with my life, Andalie.

You win your people or you lose your throne.

Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.

She had been ready to kill Da, ready for years, but now she was amazed to find that she had done something even more difficult: she had spoken aloud.

Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine?

Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all.

Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.

Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not.

There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance.

Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage.

Names made a thing real.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

I know all about the wildness of youth, believe me. But regret has a terrible ability to follow you, long after youth has vanished

The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.

Whenever she had a problem to consider, she invariably found herself in the library, for it was easier to think when she was surrounded by books.

I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.

Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see.

It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it.

The Tearling... I told them not to name things after me. - William Tear

And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The

Some people were simply broken, something inside them grown wrong and twisted.

Selfishness and self-destruction, riding hand in hand, as they so often did.

An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real.

Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked.

But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles.

They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.

Your Majesty's rescuer said a true thing, and one that's stayed with me. Often the direct way is the right way, for reasons that can't be foreseen.

Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.

I see that you have a knife behind your back... You will drop your knife. - Ewen, to Brenna

Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God.

Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.

Love was a real thing, Aisa thought, but secondary. Certainly love was not as real as her sword.

My responsibility, she thought, and the idea brought no fear now, only an extraordinary sense of gratitude.
My kingdom.

You think I don't care about my people, but I do... - The Red Queen

Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.

Vallee had taken an arrow in the knee from a sniper.

The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

Even I won't defy her. She is terrible."
"Let me tell you a secret, General. I am worse.

A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.

You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.

Rape's a weapon of war. The women got over it.

It's all right lady," Pen murmured. "I won't let you fall.

(...) have is the hell of want.

The problems of the past.
How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus,

Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best.

The Queen held up her hands for silence. At that moment, Javel knew for certain that she truly was the Queen, though he never knew why or how he knew.

Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later