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The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) QUOTES

The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) QUOTES

1 " You're the only right thing I've ever wanted. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

2 " Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people are thinking about them. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

3 " There’s no such thing as normal people, I said, a desperate flailing. “There’s just people, and some of them are miserable, and some of them are happy, and you’ve the same right to be happy as any of them—no more and no less. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

4 " I’m not some sort of pallid romantic who insists on being loved for my shining inner being. My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don’t want her company myself. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

5 " I’m sorry,” I said, feeling stupid in the way I’m sorry always feels stupid when you mean it. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

6 " It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead.” It hadn’t occurred to me that there was an answer to my question, complete presumably with regularly tended checklists. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

7 " I think everyone else felt as I did, secretly and irrationally, that if we could only succeed, if we could only destroy the whole place, we could save ourselves from ever having been in here. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

8 " They were already vulnerable, so when they looked at me they were rabbits looking at a wolf - a half-starved wolf who sometimes snapped even at the hand that fed her because it also kept her on a leash. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

9 " I couldn’t be his savior; I had enough to do saving myself. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

10 " I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don’t believe in it anyway. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

11 " It turns out that magical mice high on incense are really good at not being caught. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

12 " We're going home tomorrow. I'm going home. And my mother is going to be so happy, and for a long time, she won't care about anything, except that I'm back. But then she's going to want me to want the right things again. The things that the family think are the right things." She stopped, and took a deep breath and let it out. "But I'm not going to. I'm going to want the things I want, and help them the way I can help them. And those are going to be the right things, too. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

13 " Mum always told me that you couldn’t know what people would do in a crisis, but I’d thought she just meant you should forgive people for behaving like weasels under bad circumstances, not that a stale biscuit like Khamis might suddenly come over all heroic in a tight corner. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

14 " In Sapienta Umbraculum — in Wisdom, Shelter "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

15 " You’d rather run away and wallow in angst than ask for help or anything else horrible like that. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

16 " the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing’s changed and it’s all still horrible but you can’t cry forever, so there’s nothing to do but go on. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

17 " And I want to help my family, I want to take care of them…but I can’t be that girl. I can’t be the smart girl. I can only be me. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

18 " They’re freaked out about Orion.”
“After you’ve only been dating two months?”
“We’re not dating!”
Aadhya made a dramatic show of rolling her eyes heavenwards.
“After you’ve been doing whatever you’re doing that is not dating but looks like dating to everyone else, for only two months.”
“Thanks ever so,” I said dryly. “As far as I can tell, they’re shocked that he’s talking to another human being at all.”
“To be fair, you’re the only person I’ve ever met who’d come up with the idea of being wildly rude and hostile to the guy who saved your life twenty times,” Aadhya said.
I glared at her. “Thirteen times! And I’ve saved his life at least twice.”
“Catch up already, girl,” she said unrepentantly. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

19 " They were all delightedly hoping to give me exactly the post-Scholomance life I’d dreamed of for years. The bastards. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

20 " When I say us, what I mean is them. I felt fine. No; I felt like I’d woken up after a long sleep and had a good workout in the fresh air and a really nice stretch and was now contemplating with interest the idea of a hearty lunch. Sitting on edge in a classroom for hours surrounded by fluffy peeping freshmen waiting for one mal to pop out at me: nightmarish. Summoning a river of magma to instantly vaporize twenty-seven carefully designed attacks at once: nothing to it. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)