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" You are admired, even among your self-indulgent colleagues, for your honesty, your compassion and your integrity. These men, they lack those qualities, yet they respect them in you. Why? Why don’t they just laugh at you, when your muddle and fuddle your way through life here? You call yourself a coward, yet you were the only one courageous enough to stand up to Bayard and curb his excesses. People were in awe of that. Then, you had the most coveted boy in Magrast in your bed and you cast him out with a curse. Normally, this would invoke savage hysteria. But no. When Khaster Leckery behaves like a frigid virgin, people only worry and wonder what to do. "
― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)