Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
VERONICA ROTHMy mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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