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Jennifer Donnelly

"One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people."

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"One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people."

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"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."

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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

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"Law and justice are not always the same."

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"Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"

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"A conscientious man, Muslim or otherwise, would never abuse his wife and then resort to the scripture to justify his actions. But a fundamentalist caveman would gloriously beat his wife whenever he likes and shamelessly quote from Quran to rationalize his monstrosity."

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"No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance."

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"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."

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"Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed."

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"People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless."

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"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!''Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?''Ahmadinejad.''Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?''That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going.''Don't be so fresh, young man!''Gotta go,' he says to me. 'Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell.''Fall back, solider. Over and out."
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"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."
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"Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you."
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"It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.But I do not.I do not."
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"Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger."
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"And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts."
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"Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too.And I-I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone-I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him."
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"But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read."
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"No sunrises that stop you dead with their unspeakable beuaty, either, he thought. No whales breaching only yards away from the ship, showering your awestruck self with a cold ocean rain. No songs and whiskey belowdecks at night while the wind plucks at the ship's rigging and the ice beats against her hull."
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"You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel."
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