“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

—  Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

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