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A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) QUOTES

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) QUOTES

1 " Yes, because just what I wanted was to make a friend of a rich enclave girl so I could routinely rub my face around in all the luxuries I couldn’t have, all of which were in fact quite nice even if they didn’t measure up to the things I’d chosen in their place. And if Chloe Rasmussen turned out to be an actual decent person and a real friend, that would mean the things I didn’t have weren’t necessarily incompatible with the things I really cared about, and how exactly I was meant to put that together without being discontented all the time, I didn’t see, only I was reasonably certain that saying no and on your way now would in fact make me rude and stuck-up after all, just in a quixotic and contrary way. “Yeah, all right, "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

2 " Was I starting to feel evil? Yes. Now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

4 " If I ever did go maleficer, if I ever did start pulling malia out of people like toffee and tossing off those killing spells of mine left and right, I’d be unstoppable. Maybe literally. Raining death and destruction on all the enclaves of the world like a maw-mouth myself, like the biggest maw-mouth ever, tearing the others apart because they were my competition. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

5 " Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

6 " I straightened up and shut my eyes, getting ready to start casting, and then had to push him off; he was trying to grab hold of my hand, which I needed rather urgently right then. "What are you doing?" I said, trying to get loose: he was being stupidly persistent about it. Yes, I really sincerely hadn't any idea: whatever was Orion doing, trying to hold hands with me in the moment of what he thought was his imminent demise, and then as soon as I spared it that much of a thought, the answer became so obvious that I felt like a complete idiot. "You are dating me?" I yelled at him, in a fury, and he turned around with his face screwed up in pinched determination and grabbed my face and kissed me.

I kneed him with as much energy as the situation called for, since I also needed my voice, and then pushed him down to the floor so I could turn back to the onrushing fires and conjure up my own wall of mortal flame, just in time to put it around us as a firebreak. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

7 " You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

8 " I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

9 " READER, I RAN the fuck away. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

10 " I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

11 " 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. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

12 " 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. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

13 " You feel like it’s going to rain. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

14 " Why would you ask for a spell like that!”
“What I asked for was a spell to light my room, you twat, that’s what I got.” To be fair, the incarnate flame was in fact doing a magnificent job of lighting the room. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

15 " My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

16 " There was only me to save me, because no one else cared. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

17 " Oh, how I’d enjoyed all that sweet crisp righteous anger, my favorite drug: I’d nearly ridden the high straight into murder. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

18 " All shall love me and despair,’ ” I said. She was eyeing me very dubiously. “Galadriel? In Lord of the Rings? "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

19 " They wanted to be safe. It’s not that much to ask, it feels like. But we don’t have it to begin with, and to get it and keep it, they’d push another kid into the dark. One enclave would push another into the dark for that, too. And they didn’t stop at safety, either. They wanted comfort, and then they wanted luxury, and then they wanted excess, and every step of the way they still wanted to be safe, even as they made themselves more and more of a tempting target, and the only way they could stay safe was to have enough power to keep everyone off that wanted what they had. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

20 " He obviously wanted to leave on a snappy comeback, but couldn’t think of one. I suppose he wasn’t ever called on to produce them in the ordinary course of things. After a moment of struggle, he just scowled and stalked out. I’m delighted to report my repaired door slammed shut on his heels beautifully. "

― Naomi Novik , A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)