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"Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching."
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"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."
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"If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never was."
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"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."
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"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
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"There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world."
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"It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to."
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"Body language has no translation."
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"City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure."
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"The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons."
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"The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself."
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"It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware."
Emotion
"I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing."
Freedom
"What are the gifts given to we who live Below?'Long life, health, strength, and happiness.'What is the curse of those who live Above?'Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.'Is this fair?'It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.'Then give thanks."
Divinity
"So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant."
Celebration
"Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible."
Possibility
"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."
Discovery
"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
Silence
"It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel."
Suffering
"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."
Travel
"But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it's not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me."
Memory
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