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“I won’t leave these people.” “Why?” Trystan yelled. “You don’t know them, and they wouldn’t do this for you.” Evie held his gaze, trapping him with her eyes. “I’m not doing this because of what they’d do. I’m doing it because it’s what I do.”

“It shouldn’t have been surprising to her that when given the choice of whether to help others, many instead willfully chose to hurt them. As a child, she had been taught that it was the villains who made that choice, but now she realized it was actually the boastful kings and lords—the ones who accepted love but not responsibility.”

“Oh, of course. Mediocre men receiving positions of power they haven’t earned because of their birthrights. How against the grain.”

"You'd be surprised how easy it is for some to ignore the problems of the world if they aren't impacted by them.”

"The world should always be wary of a king who boasts and instead pay attention to the misfits and outcasts. They usually had far more important things to say yet far less opportunity to say them."