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“My brother and I used to live in Rome,” she invented.
“Rome.” The other woman turned up her nose a little. “Well, I suppose people have to live somewhere.”

— Genevieve Cogman The Masked City (2015)

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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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Sometimes the obvious answer is the true answer.

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