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‘“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.