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“‘[…] I wish when you were ten, you’d had someone like you.’
‘I did,’ says Felix quietly. ‘Several of them. And for me they made sure it did work out.’”

“‘Thank you,’ he says. ‘I hope one day I can…’ Ruby puts her finger over his lips. ‘You already repaid me,’ she sad to him quietly. ‘Seventy-three years ago.’”

“[…] so if my trust runs out, maybe my gratefulness will help me hang on.”

“I don’t bother saying that’s several weeks too long when a war’s already started. Feliz knows it is.”

“Always expect the unexpected,”

“I’m still alive, Wassim, because a long time ago people gave me good protection, even if it cost them everything.”

“Gently, together, we cover him with earth.”

“This boy who has so much to give, and who I suspect has had so much taken from him.”

“Then we stand side by side and say our goodbyes to him. ‘Thank you, old friend,’ I whisper.”

“[…] but partisan training stays with you even when you’re old and dopey.”

“Be on guard. They know where to find you, the people who hate. They’ve done library research too.”

“Always unmistakable, death. Even when you’re in shock, you know it as soon as you see it.”

“I’ve had a previous locket for seventy-seven years, and I’ve never noticed this before. Probably because all I’ve seen is sad memories. Zelda looking at me with a loving frown, saying ‘Don’t you know anything?’”