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"Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album."
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"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
"Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind."
"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
"A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil."
"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline."
"True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done."
"The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen."
"Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core, he is one who follows his Tao."
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"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."
"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."
"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."
"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."
"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."
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