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“Building a new life, a better life, Gil had told her, will keep you looking forward, until, one day, you’ll find you’re no longer tempted to keep turning back toward everything you’ve lost.”

“There comes a point where you have to decide what’s right for yourself and act, no matter the consequences.”

“Sometimes, he’d said, the braver thing is to accept help when you’ve been made to believe you shouldn’t need it.”

“He may posses power, but you have righteousness.”

“I believe we choose what we become.”

“It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”

“Sometimes you just have to survive to fight another day.”

“Her destiny was a gift, and now she would manifest it.”

“The only real thing in this world is what you can do for others. How you can take care of them.”