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"At every critical juncture you were given an option; you were given a way out. Yet you picked precisely the roads that led you here."

"He was not a threat now, only the tragic, glaring proof that her heroes inevitably let her down."

"That is responsibility. If you hold the fate of the country in your hands, if you have accepted your obligation to your people, then your life ceases to be your own. Once you accept the title of ruler, your choices are made for you."

"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains."

"There is power in awareness."

"Kitay could afford to be victimized by the city because he had room to fail."

"What a difference an accident of birth made."

"I have taught her class the crushing sensation of disappointment and the even more important lesson that they do not matter as much as they think they do."

"Success required sacrifice. Sacrifice meant pain. Pain meant success."

"Power dictates acceptability."