"Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is."
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"Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game."
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"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
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"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."
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"I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all."
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"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."
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"Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it."
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"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."
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"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
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"It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
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"I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again."
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"The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?"
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"Looking at her is like waking up."
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"Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place."
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"The opinions of others cannot damage you."
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"Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty."
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"Human reason can excuse any evil."
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"I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand"
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"You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
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"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."
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