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“Keep honest heart and ever gods in mind. For if evil deeds go unpunished, only evil doth one find.”
― A Hero Born: The Definitive Edition
― A Hero Born: The Definitive Edition
“It seemed in every other book some poor office worker woman about my age got hit by a bus or collapsed from overworking and ended up in a fictional world.”
― This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
― This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
“Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. No incident is isolated. The past is with us always. This is the lesson of history and why it is important not to forget. We are always in a conversation with history.”
― Under the Same Stars
― Under the Same Stars
“took to the official radio, sounding angry and hateful, petty and aggrieved about one thing or another. Sophie had never heard him any other way, never seen his dead eyes light up with joy. He frightened her. Those bombastic tirades, the newspaper photos of his face splotchy with rage, a finger jabbing at the air as if it, too, were an offense, as if he had gone mad. But the very traits that upset Sophie seemed to bring other people a sense of comfort and security. “He’s a strong leader,” Fräulein Volker would say. “A real man who is unafraid of his authority. The fatherland demands a strict father to make it great again.”
― Under the Same Stars
― Under the Same Stars
“The police had great power now. They no longer needed a warrant for a search, they only needed suspicion—and there was a great deal of suspicion to go around.”
― Under the Same Stars
― Under the Same Stars
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