“They call themselves the light.” “What about it?” “If you are the light,” she said, “then your enemies are… — Emily St John Mandel
“They call themselves the light.”
“What about it?”
“If you are the light,” she said, “then your enemies are darkness, right?”
“I suppose.”
“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”
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