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one of her favorite heroines had always been Capitola in The Hidden Hand, who could fight as well as a man—and dressed like one.
Her hair was a bright scarlet,
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. —Meng-tzu
If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?
A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind.”
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
“Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel,” she said, aware that she was using his Christian name, but not able to help it. “Only make the right ones in future. We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves.”
“Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”
It was not his better nature she appealed to but his vanity: All men thought of themselves as good in the end, surely. No one believed themselves a villain.
“Turn your hand from them. Your grievances against the Nephilim are just. But if they are all dead, who will be lessoned by your vengeance? Who will atone? If there is no one to learn from the past, there is no one to carry on its lessons. Let them live. Let them carry your teachings into the future. They can be your legacy.”
