"...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear"
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"The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals."
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"Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure."
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"Sarah: "Not bad. You look almost human." Lena: "Thanks." Sarah: "I said almost." Lena: "Well, then, almost thanks."
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"This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass."
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"Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium"
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"Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now."
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"They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid."
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"I’ve always hated being looked at."
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"I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind."
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"I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot."
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"That's the thing about faith. It works."
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"It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand."
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"Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine."
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"It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them."
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"Maybe, the hope said. Maybe."
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"Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt."
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"I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?"
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"They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again."
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"The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends."
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