Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Katherine Rundell
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  1. I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

  2. People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.

  3. No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

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  5. Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie–two...

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