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“We're going home tomorrow. I'm going home. And my mother is going to be so happy, and for a long time, she won't care about anything, except that I'm back. But then she's going to want me to want the right things again. The things that the family think are the right things." She stopped, and took a deep breath and let it out. "But I'm not going to. I'm going to want the things I want, and help them the way I can help them. And those are going to be the right things, too.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“You’d rather run away and wallow in angst than ask for help or anything else horrible like that.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“They were all delightedly hoping to give me exactly the post-Scholomance life I’d dreamed of for years. The bastards.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“The point being that we still needed a better strategy for graduation than Wait and see if El can keep her big-girl pants on, and here I was whinging on about how nice it would be for me to do something unbelievably stupid instead, like Orion.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate