The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3)

by Naomi Novik

I’m good at pessimism.

Intent doesn’t matter, she’d say, when you’ve really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you’re ever to make things whole between you.

There’s no one who can hand you a badge and make you all right. The only way to be all right is to keep on being all right, as best you can.”