“My responsibility was to tell you the truth, not wrap you in swaddling clothes.”

She raised her hood again, half-veiling her face in shadow. “Nor protect you from your own badly aimed temper.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 9 “The Five-Year Game: Reasonable Doubt” section 2 (p. 551)

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