‘Lily Darker, you have a lot to learn. If you must always break the rules in life, you need to understand how to do so without getting caught. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.’ ‘What?’ Lily said, rubbing a bruised knee. ‘Pardon, not what. It’s Shakespeare.’ Nana may as well have said it was Swahili. ‘Look, Lily, I admire your spirit and your ambition to always get your own way in life, but I fear others might find your personality tiresome and petulant when you are older. If you want to be bad and get away with it, you need to be better at pretending to be good. Like
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