“Authority figures always attract trouble.”
“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.”
“I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.”
“They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.”
“If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.”