“If you think back, my comments were very open to interpretation. And you happen to be easily misled. As for the queen, who is difficult to lead anywhere… I have always been and intend to be entirely straightforward.”

—  Suzanne Collins , The Underland Chronicles

Ripred, p. 247
The Underland Chronicles, Gregor and the Marks of Secret (2006)

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