A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

by Naomi Novik

the horrors of crochet,

My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.

I hated the idea; it made him too much of a decent person, and what right did he have to be a decent person, on top of a monumentally stupid gigantic hero?

I waited for her to say all the usual things: You’re rude, you’re cold, you’re mean, you’re angry, all the things people say to make it my fault, but she looked over at me and frowned like she was really thinking about it, and then she said with decision, “You feel like it’s going to rain.”

and in magic, intentions matter.

She says it’s too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it’s okay because they’re still good people overall, inside their own heads.

Words can’t describe how much I hate crochet.

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