She had thought that being a weapon might give her peace. That it might place the blame of blood-soaked decisions on someone else so that she was not responsible for the deaths at her hands. But all that had done was make her blind, stupid, and so easily manipulated.
She was so much more powerful than anyone—Altan, Vaisra—had ever let her be. She was finished taking orders. Whatever she did next would be her sole, autonomous choice.
“Always such a hypocrite. I acted from necessity, just like you. We are precisely the same, you and I. We've acquired more power than any mortal should have the right to, which means we have to make the decisions no one else can. The world is our chessboard. It's not our fault if the pieces get broken.”
If she wasn’t making the decisions, then nothing could be her fault.
But when we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.
Türkçe / English Review
Kitabın diğer incelemelerini incelerken çoğu okurun eserden "Çocuk kitabı" diye bahsettiğini gördüm ve 
Çizgili Pijamalı Çocuk ile benzer bir karışıklılığa girdiğini fark ettim. Maalesef günümüzde eserlerin baş kahramanları çocuk olunca hemen çocuk kitabı etiketi yapıştırılıyor içeriği göz önünde bulundurulmadan. Çizgili Pijamalı Çocuk 'da olduğu gibi travmatik
''Life is full of decisions and judgements and guesses, and it gets to the point where you're so accustomed to making them you keep right on making them even when you don't strictly need to.''
Sayfa 2 - Bantam Books, Copyright Lee Child 2000Kitabı okuyor
Hypergamy doesn't care
Hipergami, çocuklarınız için ne kadar iyi bir Baba olduğunuzu umursamıyor.
Hipergami, ona daha iyi uyum sağlamak için üniversitedeki bölümlerinizi ve hayattaki kariyer seçiminizi nasıl yeniden düzenlediğinizi umursamaz.
Evde oturan bir baba olarak kendinizi ne kadar ilham verici veya tatmin olmuş hissettiğiniz hipergaminin umrunda
Sayfa 134Kitabı okuyor
LaLa my girl <3
“What is the point of having friends if they’re not there to support your bad decisions?”
LaLaKitabı okudu
"People make their own decisions, and sometimes bad things happen."
“It’s hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That’s part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can’t refuse anything and can’t even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel. And you felt everything, didn’t you?”
“Raelynn. Come here.”
I went to him without hesitation, and I stood in front of him feeling so small, somewhere between frightened and hopeful, as if there was anything he could possibly say that would make all this make sense.
His fingers brushed over my face, and I leaned into his palm. For a moment, the whole world was the touch of his hand. The warmth in him. The citrus-smoke smell of him. For a moment, I thought of eternity.
“I’m leaving.”
I opened my eyes. “What?”
“I need to find the grimoire. Then my time on Earth is done. I’ve been here long enough.”
It felt like cold water dripping down my ribs. I didn’t want to hear him say that, but I couldn’t prevent it. I couldn’t say the words that would make him stay. I couldn’t say anything at all. I could only let the decisions I couldn’t bear to make form a stranglehold around my lungs and squeeze until it hurt.
Rae-Leon.Kitabı okudu
Hayat karmaşık yollardan oluşuyordu, hangisine gideceğine de her insan kendi karar veriyordu.
Life consisted of complex paths, and each person made their own decisions about which ones to take.
Totaliterizm
Totaliter rejimlerin ektiği tohumlar, sefalet ve yoksunlukla beslenirler.
Yoksulluğun ve düzensizliğin çorak arazisinde büyür ve çoğalırlar.
Harry S. Truman [ABD Başkanı], Memoirs, cilt I:
Year of Decisions (New York, 1955).
TÜSİAD TARİH 1939 1990
Sayfa:203
The author does an incredible job of world-building and breaks YA stereotypes by avoiding love triangles, or really any romance at all (other than between minor characters). It was refreshing to read a book where the main character, a female, doesn't make decisions based on romantic love. Instead, the focus is on family - chosen and biological - and what makes us "human". The author's inclusion of LGBTQIA characters was subtle and well-written - their sexuality was not treated like a "big moment", but instead it was simply another facet of their character.
I love that this book is a stand-alone, but would've enjoyed it as a series as well. 
Emily Victoria
