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“Why someone dies is not the same question as why they are gone.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Sometimes, the word “stateless” is carelessly or even abusively used; but it does describe those peoples who had no machinery of government coercion and no concept of a political unit wider than the family or the village. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“It's not about the teller," I said. "But the fortune. Good or ill, true or false, it haunts the listener.”
― Somaiya Daud, Court of Lions

“Who's the literary nerd? The quoter or the one who recognizes the quote?”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn