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I don't want to die, Arlen, but I would lay down my life for any of these men, or they for me. That's a real thing, sacrifice, but you will never understand it. -- Erika Johansen
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Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not. -- Erika Johansen
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You win your people or you lose your throne. -- Erika Johansen
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Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It -- Erika Johansen
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The problems of the past.
How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future. -- Erika Johansen
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The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they're just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future. -- Erika Johansen
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But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles. -- Erika Johansen
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as always, the story was the compelling thing, worth all of its suffering to find out the ending -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen. -- Erika Johansen
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You can defend your kingdom, or you can defend your people, Majesty. You don't have the manpower to do both at once."
"People are more important than land. -- Erika Johansen
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Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement -- Erika Johansen
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...Javel saw evil in those bright blue eyes, not malevolence but something much worse: an evil born of lack of self-awareness, an evil that didn't know it was evil and therefore could justify anything. -- Erika Johansen
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They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling. -- Erika Johansen
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I'll govern for the good of the governed.
I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.
I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land and goods and taxation. -- Erika Johansen
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Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean. -- Erika Johansen
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I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated. -- Erika Johansen
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Her old appearance had been genuine, and had gained her nothing. But her new appearance was worse, hollow and false, and anything that she gained by it would carry that falsity like a disease. -- Erika Johansen
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My responsibility, she thought, and the idea brought no fear now, only an extraordinary sense of gratitude.
My kingdom. -- Erika Johansen
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Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords; -- Erika Johansen
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Once in a while, usually when Ewen wasn't even trying, he would solve a mystery, and that was a great and extraordinary feeling, the way he imagined birds would feel as they swooped across the sky. -- Erika Johansen
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You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments. -- Erika Johansen
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An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real. -- Erika Johansen
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And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The -- Erika Johansen
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The Tearling... I told them not to name things after me. - William Tear -- Erika Johansen
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When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius. -- Erika Johansen
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And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse. -- Erika Johansen
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There's a better world out there, so close we can almost touch it. -- Erika Johansen
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The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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I'm sober."
"That's not my concern. I know you'll never make that mistake again."
"Then what's your concern?" the younger man asked, his tone aggressive.
"You and her. -- Erika Johansen
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Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left. -- Erika Johansen
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Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best. -- Erika Johansen
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This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to whatever they want, whatever they can grab. Such people never ask themselves if they have the right. They consider no cost to anyone but themselves. -- Erika Johansen
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What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight. -- Erika Johansen
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We have trust, Lady, you and I?"
"I trust you with my life, Andalie. -- Erika Johansen
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Only a fool blames the dealer -- Erika Johansen
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There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own. -- Erika Johansen
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She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain. -- Erika Johansen
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Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see. -- Erika Johansen
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Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open. -- Erika Johansen
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The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew. -- Erika Johansen
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I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king. -- Erika Johansen
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We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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Vallee had taken an arrow in the knee from a sniper. -- Erika Johansen
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This country is diseased. The fortunate celebrate on the backs of the starving, the ill, the terrorised. The law affords no recourse to the disadvantaged. That's a historical sickness, and there's only one cure. -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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You think I don't care about my people, but I do... - The Red Queen -- Erika Johansen
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Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God. -- Erika Johansen
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Names made a thing real. -- Erika Johansen
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They're good, these stories," Mace continued, his cheeks stained with light color. "They teach the pain of others." "Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it. -- Erika Johansen
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The future cannot be divorced from the past. -- Erika Johansen
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Some people were simply broken, something inside them grown wrong and twisted. -- Erika Johansen
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Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before. -- Erika Johansen
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Selfishness and self-destruction, riding hand in hand, as they so often did. -- Erika Johansen
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Rape's a weapon of war. The women got over it. -- Erika Johansen
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Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. -- Erika Johansen
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(...) have is the hell of want. -- Erika Johansen
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I know all about the wildness of youth, believe me. But regret has a terrible ability to follow you, long after youth has vanished -- Erika Johansen
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Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus, -- Erika Johansen
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Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over. -- Erika Johansen
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Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful. -- Erika Johansen
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The hawk ripped out his jugular, spraying the morning sunlight with a fine mist of blood. -- Erika Johansen
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Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all. -- Erika Johansen
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It's all right lady," Pen murmured. "I won't let you fall. -- Erika Johansen
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Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness. -- Erika Johansen
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I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even. -- Erika Johansen
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You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable. -- Erika Johansen
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These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. -- Erika Johansen
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There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance. -- Erika Johansen
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Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. "I haven't been crowned, Lazarus." "No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life. -- Erika Johansen
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I see that you have a knife behind your back... You will drop your knife. - Ewen, to Brenna -- Erika Johansen
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The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled. -- Erika Johansen
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Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it. -- Erika Johansen
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The air had lost its icy feel, but now a thin, sickly mist clung to everything, wrapping around tree trunks and moving over the ground in visible tides. -- Erika Johansen
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Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done. -- Erika Johansen
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Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later -- Erika Johansen
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Lady, if you don't wake up, I'm going to have you baptized. -- Erika Johansen
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If they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. -- Erika Johansen
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Love was a real thing, Aisa thought, but secondary. Certainly love was not as real as her sword. -- Erika Johansen
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Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine? -- Erika Johansen
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Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is. -- Erika Johansen
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Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot. -- Erika Johansen
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Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage. -- Erika Johansen
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Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men. -- Erika Johansen
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Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book. -- Erika Johansen
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Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward. -- Erika Johansen
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One night she'd stayed up until dawn reading a particularly long novel, and she had been allowed to skip her chores and sleep away most of the next day. -- Erika Johansen
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Pain only disables the weak. -- Erika Johansen
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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. -- Erika Johansen
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I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. Books everywhere, as common as they used to be in circulation before the Crossing, affordable even for the poor. -- Erika Johansen
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Even I won't defy her. She is terrible."
"Let me tell you a secret, General. I am worse. -- Erika Johansen
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Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb. -- Erika Johansen
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A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit. -- Erika Johansen
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Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked. -- Erika Johansen