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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Lies require commitment.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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“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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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