“A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.”
“A strikingly beautiful shit-storm of trouble––Ana attracted trouble like no one else.”
“Authority figures always attract trouble.”
“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.”
“The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in..”
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”