A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

by Naomi Novik

Those who pay the piper call the tune, et cetera.

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.

And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.

hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.