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"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"
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"I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far."
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"I have no confidence in USA law enforcement."
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"I distrust anything that you don't hear."
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"I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now."
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
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"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
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"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason."
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"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
Loneliness
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
Risk
"Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity."
Emotion
"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
Identity
"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes.I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide."
Humor
"I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten."
Forgiveness
"The person you became with her is worth being."
Identity
"Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone."
Conflict
"It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
Morality
"Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you."
Reality
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