“"No!" shouted Arthur. "What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might… just might… make some of them do something!"
"Can't we?" asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.”

—  Garth Nix

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lady Friday (2007), p. 46.

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