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Hilary Chan
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“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
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“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language. “English,” writes Virginia Woolf, “which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear has no words for the shiver or the headache.” … Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.”
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“When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.
Even I didn't jump first.
Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.
Beautiful.”
― Allegiant
Even I didn't jump first.
Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.
Beautiful.”
― Allegiant
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