Hester

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Hester’s Quotes

“Honor is a light that brings trouble. Shadows are safer by far.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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“Save that anger,” Mai said with a sigh. “Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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“Books want to burn,' he says. 'They go up like that because - they're unstable, memories don't want to stay...”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

tags: books, burning, unstable

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“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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“Duco was gripping the top of the barricade tightly, staring at the departing leader. 'That was a curse.'
'From a man who eats people?' the Batavian with the broken nose said. 'Piss on him, what does he know.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, The Encircling Sea

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