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“Back in the main corridor—what Luke now understood to be the residents’ wing—the little girls, Gerda and Greta, were standing and watching with wide, frightened eyes. They were holding hands and clutching dolls as identical as they were. They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie.”
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― The Institute
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― The Terror
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― Outside
“It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.”
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― The Institute
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