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“It is a horrifying responsibility to think that because things cannot remain the same, each and every one of us must shoulder some responsibility for how they will become different”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“Because you were lied to does not mean that everything is a lie. Do not take the crimes of those who have manipulated us and put them at the feet of the world. It’s our time to write the story—and we’re going to make the world how we want it.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“But Misha didn’t just remind me of Sergei. He was every child whose parents went to war. He was every boy and girl at Keramzin. He was Baghra begging for her father’s attention. He was the Darkling learning loneliness at his mother’s knee. This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun. Nikolai had believed in something better.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology. Meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan