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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."

"I have no confidence in USA law enforcement."

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
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"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you."


"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."


"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. 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. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."


"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."


"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."


"When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."
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