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“Usually,” Xiala said carefully, “when someone describes a man as harmless, he ends up being a villain.”
“I need not repair anything,” Abah protested. “I was not alive back then so have no responsibility for the Night of Knives. I don’t know why they hate me.” “None of us was alive,” Naranpa said, “save Haisan, and him likely a child. But alive or not, we bear the burden.” And we all reap the benefit, she thought, but thought it best not to utter something so controversial aloud.
“A man with a destiny is a man who fears nothing,” he whispered to himself.
“Life is a series of false hopes. We all have misplaced hopes until we learn better.
Impress a man today, and he’ll expect you to impress him tomorrow, too.
There are only two kinds of men: ones who betray you sooner and ones who betray you later.
