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Indigo was precisely the sort of person who would declare that a just revolution was worth a million deaths. As long as she wasn’t one of them, of course.

— Genevieve Cogman The Secret Chapter (2019)

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You must surely know by now, Winters, that a leader’s authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

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Don’t you realize you have a responsibility to other people to look after yourself?

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The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities.

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“But don’t make the same mistakes that we have, Irene.” Her mouth quirked in a smile. “Make some new ones.”

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