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Because wherever Rune Winters went, her carefully crafted reputation came with her. She was an informer. A witch hater. A darling of the New Republic. Rune was the girl who betrayed her grandmother.
“You spend your days looking out for everyone else, but who’s looking out for you?”
In all those years, how many times have I needed saving? She must have asked aloud, because Alex said: “It’s not the times you don’t need saving that I’m worried about. It’s the one time you’ll need it, and there will be no one to do it.”
It seemed like a dream back then. Too good to be true. And it was.
Some people are determined to live out their own personal tragedies.”
It was no gift, being allowed to live while the one you loved most was dead—because of you.
This is a game, he reminded himself, his chest tight. It means nothing. But if that were true, why did he feel like he was walking straight off a cliff, hoping he wouldn’t fall?
One of us thinks ourself too good for the other. But it’s not me.
Her throat swelled and her eyes burned. She’d stripped off her mask, and without it, she was fumbling.
a great leader weighs the consequences of every decision, and must bear the weight of those consequences. So ask yourself: which consequences can you live with?”
“Sparing the life of someone you hate doesn’t make you weak,”
She wanted to believe him. She’d be a fool to believe him.
