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‘I can't shake the ridiculous feeling that I stepped straight into a storybook and then slammed the cover shut before I'd reached the end.’

‘“Your ruthlessness will carry you far,” he says. But it doesn’t sound like praise.’

‘On this one day I will not deny what I am.’

‘I had dared to hope.’

shut up… omg. yeah.

‘Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.’

‘Everything she most wanted in this instant would destroy everything she had most wanted for all the rest of her life.’

“I vowed to die for you—don’t make a liar of me.”

I’m sooo normal about this

"Why do you all do that? Every time anyone mentions Nayauru I hear these snide asides about her love of men. She engineers majestic dams and fine roads, her troops are formidable, her ambitions plain and her alliances firm. Are you all so menaced by her that you feel the need to reduce her to a—a docklands pimp sampling from her boys?"

& she’s right.

‘One eye set on a future of glittering wealthy subservience, the other turned to a receding and irretrievable freedom.’

‘Had she been happy, all this time? Had the endless meetings of the Governing Factors, the men explaining her own job and policies to her in slow simple words, been a fair price for a taste of power? Had all the harborside nights, disguised in the dress of another woman with another homeland, another accent, another taste, been a delightful game, a proper challenge?’

wow.

Baru just became robin hood, I see..

‘And perhaps he was right— surely, thinking rationally, she had to consider that he might be right.’

“As long as you believe that is all you are, you will never be anything but a piece of the machine.”

‘falling down past the horizon, and into memory’