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" Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the Machine to do the same. Every revolution believes it can return something that had been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that endures are people. Syd saw that clearly now, and perhaps so too did Marie. You could serve a revolution, an idea that ended up an echo if itself, or you could serve people, with their maddening contradictions. You couldn't serve both. You had to choose. "
― Alex London , Guardian (Proxy, #2)
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" Thank you, Roa," said Instructor Ally. "And, Topher, is your mother still out of work?"
"Uh, yeah," Topher growled, picking at his fingernails.
"Thought so," said Instructor Ally. "If you're going to make fun of someone in my class, you might consider that you have yet to pass a single test and are more useful to your family as dragon food than as a student. "
― Alex London , City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
