“think you hate me because… I’m someone you can hate. I’m here, I’m handy. But what you really hate is the world.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me, and you.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“Nothing to do but follow your crazy,”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“You obeyed, once, because you thought it would make you safe. He showed you—again and again, unrelentingly, he would not let you pretend otherwise—that if obedience did not make one safe from the Guardians or the nodes or the lynchings or the breeding or the disrespect, then what was the point? The game was too rigged to bother playing.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
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