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Everything I have accomplished in this city, everything I have yet to accomplish, takes its root in the rule of law. If I am complicit in lawbreaking—if I interfere and exonerate a confessed felon because of my personal preferences—then I am no better than my uncle you once named monster.

— Carol Berg An Illusion of Thieves (2019)

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The grand duc is lost in a cloud of delusion that masquerades as mysticism.

An Illusion of Thieves (2019)

“This means war. And who suffers most if powerful families go to war?”
“Everyone else but them.”

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My determination to make my own way in the world must not make me stupid.

An Illusion of Thieves (2019)

“That was a brave thing.”
“Didn’t feel at all brave. Just desperate.”
“Bravery results from desperation more often than we’d like to think.”

An Illusion of Thieves (2019)

Reason crushed that idiocy instantly.

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