Tak! quoted Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the …
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Alex looked at Sandow sipping his tea, one leg crossed over the other, light glinting off his shiny loafer as his knee bounced, and she understood that at some level he truly did not care what harm came to her. He might even be hoping for it. If Alex got hurt, if she vanished, she would take with her all the blame for what had happened to Darlington, and her short, disastrous tenure at Yale would be written off as an unfortunate mistake in judgment, an ambitious experiment gone wrong.
— Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
We need to listen to internal voices like these in our real lives, when they say things like "Gee, you know what, this project manager would actually benefit if the project failed as a result of these decisions they're making now, but surely they wouldn't be so unprofessional…"