"In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex"
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"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt."
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"I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now."
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"That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet."
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"That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy"
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"it seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine. it was a lifetime ago. everything was different."
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"I was glad when the invalids were executed"
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"The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling."
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"you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too."
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"For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again."
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"I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest."
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"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."
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"This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost."
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"For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out."
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"He was still in love with you, anyway."
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"Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . ."
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"I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp."
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"it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one."
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"I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."
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"It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes."
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