"And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it."
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"I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body."
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"Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."
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"We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves."
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"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
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"What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel."
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"I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers."
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"We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized."
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"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
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"Lies require commitment."
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"I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
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"I'll say it one last time: Be brave."
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"I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become."
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"Reading is such a huge part of my life."
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"That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be."
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"Desperation can make a person do surprising things."
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"It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice."
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"Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close."
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"The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me."
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