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“We're going home tomorrow. I'm going home. And my mother is going to be so happy, and for a long time, she won't care about anything, except that I'm back. But then she's going to want me to want the right things again. The things that the family think are the right things." She stopped, and took a deep breath and let it out. "But I'm not going to. I'm going to want the things I want, and help them the way I can help them. And those are going to be the right things, too.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“I’m sorry,” I said, feeling stupid in the way I’m sorry always feels stupid when you mean it.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“And I want to help my family, I want to take care of them…but I can’t be that girl. I can’t be the smart girl. I can only be me.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate