A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.”
“READER, I RAN the fuck away.”
“I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.”
“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes, now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
“You know, it’s almost impressive,” he said after a moment, sounding less wobbly. “You’re nearly dead and you’re still the rudest person I’ve ever met. You’re welcome again, by the way.” “Given that you’re at least half responsible for this situation, I refuse to thank you,” I said.”
“She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it's reasonable shorthand to decide that someone's an evil person who oughtn't have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.”
“Some sorcerers get an affinity for weather magic, or transformation spells, or fantastic combat magics like dear Orion. I got an affinity for mass destruction.”
“You feel like it’s going to rain.”
“You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.”
“My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.”
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Book Keywords:
crochet, humor, introvert, evil-people, rain, school, magic-school, dark-side, el, fantasy, personality, dark-academia, magic, evil
