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“That was what I told myself when I found myself under surveillance by a child who should’ve been under surveillance by someone else: it’s good practice! A flawless performance, after all, does not arrive overnight. It takes years —and years, and years— of practice.”

This is her own child she’s speaking of 😐

“After all, if they hadn’t been there for him, he would no longer be alive. He was returning the greatest of favours. They certainly had no idea what they had done, but that was okay. Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.”

Why am I feeling so much sympathy for a murderer? 😢

“Murder isn’t the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation. Ishigami would never engage in something so clearly counterproductive. Of course, the converse is also true. That is, he’s quite capable of committing an atrocity, provided that it’s the most logical course of action.”

“I yearn for the lifestyle of a hobbit — slow and cozy with a sprinkle of adventure.”

“Thanks for the tea and warm clothes. And…if you need someone to help you stick it to the man, I’m your girl. Every time.”

“Some things are only meant for the one swimming in dark waters.”

“People aren’t meant to see the cracks in the world. They can’t afford to, not when survival depends on believing they’re not there.”

“You told me to remember: ‘First say to yourself what you would be.’ I’d be someone other than what you made me. I would be myself again.”

That plot twist 🤯 And then the one after that 😧

“As if psychopathy was ever a barrier to advancement in the Company anyway.” 😧

“A deofol’s name was a private thing, shared only with one’s nearest and dearest. It was like learning the name of a piece of someone’s soul. And Fairhrim’s deofol had just given Osric his.”

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“That was what Fairhrim did. Skewer everything with logic and leave behind a twitching corpse.”

“Rather short notice, isn’t it? But that’s typical of you. Short notice, shortsighted, short on brains.”

“For those who like it best when the Venn diagram between love and hate is a circle.”

“When Isako gets to the front, the strapping bouncer looks her up and down and raises bristly eyebrows. It’s not every night, she suspects, that a fifty-year-old woman with a longknife comes alone to the nightclub.”

“There’s no more foolish pastime than hunting for meaning in the ravings of a drunk.”

“Men never think much of people like us—we are not the ones sitting on thrones or holding court, after all—but their underestimation, I am convinced, is our strength. Our names may not be in the bylines of poems, but we still have power to change things from the shadows. In our own way.”

“Power is such a wicked thing. Razing everything in its path, consuming all, leaving none untouched. Not even the kindest of souls among us are spared, once they have had so much as a taste.”

“Those who are starved are most desperate. And even the Ancestors know that women have long been starved for power.”

“But is he a villain, or simple political swine? It is often hard to tell those two apart.”

“I feel we needn’t bother looking at faces to find this man, Din! Just keep an eye out for the fellow with testicles large enough to cause back deformities, and we shall have our culprit!”

“I feel akin to the disappointed maiden during her first night in the marital bed — the more I pull at what I find, the more I find it to my liking!”

From this quote alone, you wouldn’t know this is actually about a murder investigation 😄

“Now —step fast. We are in a dangerous area. I don’t want anyone seeing your very pretty face, assuming you’re a rich man who paid for the shaping of it, and knifing you for your talints.”