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This, I thought, was the reason Vivian needed the book so badly. Because no throne is held easily, or for long; because a nation is a story we tell about ourselves, and stories change, if you let them. Because where there is power, someone will oppose it.»

«Die, and be redeemed. Die, and be remembered. Die, and live forever.»

«I couldn't do it any longer, not for her. But for you — I would be a hero. One last time.»

«In order to have a future worth fighting for, you must have a last worth remembering.»

«I only knelt for a while in the place where the woods had once been, but were no longer, until I understood what every person understands eventually: that I had left home and could never return to it, and that there would never be a time when I did not miss it.»