“Who rules you, nomads? Do you answer to someone's will besides your own? Are you free to choose your own path, or will the Volturi decide how you will live?
"I came to witness. I stay to fight. The Volturi care nothing for the death of a child. They seek the death of our free will.”

—  Stephenie Meyer

Garrett, p. 719
Twilight series, Breaking Dawn (2008)

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