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“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
“You're not very nice," I say, grinning."You're one to talk.""Hey, I could be nice if I tried.""Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then.""You're very good-looking."He smiles, his teeth a f...”
“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "...”
“You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.”
“We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.”
“I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved ...”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”
“I laugh, and its laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything Ive ever known is coming apart. I ...”
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more mi...”
“Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.”
“Its getting more difficult to be wise, he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. I think thats how itssupposed to be.”
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who ne...”
“If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.”
“She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.”
“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.”
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everythin...”
“Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.”
“The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite”