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“Nobody cares,” he told himself, neither cruelly nor kindly.

“So what do you want, then?” mused Callum. “For me to destroy myself?” “Of course not,” his other self replied. “Don’t you understand? I don’t care what you do to yourself. Nobody does. I don’t care if you live or die. Isn’t that obvious?”

‘If the five initiates were revealing themselves to be simple patterns of habit, a series of traceable behaviors observable by each of the others, then perhaps that was the purpose, the true game. Maybe it was not about whether they could be defeated by one another, but how well they could be predicted. But by whom, and for what?’

'Without Libby for a counterweight, there was nothing to temper his recklessness. Nothing to anchor him at all. Nico wasn't the only one left unbalanced. They were all slightly different without Libby Rhodes. Without them realizing it, she had established herself as the "but" in their collective conscience, their measure of morality.'

"Within the simulation, you'll be faced with a projection of someone else in your initiate class. Not as they are, but as you perceive them." There's the theme of identity/self-image coming back again

NO WAY A FELLOW CANADIAN 🇨🇦

This voice-actress had ONE chapter to voice her character and she delivered a stellar performance, holy shit

Power is such a fickle thing.

The layers of conflict are increasing. I’m stressed.

Good lord my anxiety just spiked so high… I felt like I was panicking with Tristan while listening to the audiobook