"Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty."

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Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

— Kristin Cashore