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You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn’t keeping us alive. it was thinking we’d never fight back.

As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.

they don’t hate you, my child. they hate what you were meant to become.

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“As long as we don't have magic, they will never treat us with respect. They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.”

“Y o u  k n o w  h o w  t o  win” S h e  s a y s.  “J u s t  m a k e  s u r e  y o u   k n o w  w h e n  t o fight.”

“I give you the strength to fight, but you all must learn the strength of restraint.” Mama turns to me, shoulders pinned back. “You must protect those who can’t defend themselves. That is the way of the staff.”  — Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

”No matter how much I crave peace, the gods have other plans.”