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“When everyone above the surface believes everyone below is uncivilized and defective and you all believe everyone above is immoral and self-serving, who wins? How can anyone win when you all hate one another?” I asked. Hal said nothing. “How are you any different from them?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“They didn’t hide the majors to protect us from their defects. They hid them so we wouldn’t discover the truth. That we were the ones in pain, and they—they were free.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“I knew these wants were just the beginning. I was terrified. Terrified that if I continued to want—if I released what I had repressed—I would be the one who suffocated under the deluge of unmet desires. What about the injustice of it—that those in the sky had access to such things while the rest of us didn’t? Why were they permitted luxuries while the rest of us were denied basic human needs? Did they withhold it until we became desperate and compliant?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform