“You can’t trust people in power, dearie. They’ll say whatever they want, all the witnesses will be paid to agree, and then you’re behind bars till the end of your days. Or worse.”

—  Genevieve Cogman

Source: The Mortal Word (2018), Chapter 20 (p. 294)

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