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“The code of not telling tales was the usual stuff where stronger people tried to impose their rules on weaker people so they could get away with everything.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Why is language in the Borderlands so weird? Some of it’s modern, and some of it’s medieval, and I guess that makes sense with the influx of a certain amount of new blood to the training camp every year, but how do some words and phrases transfer, while others don’t? Why do you know the word ‘jerk’ and not the word ‘bisexual’?”
“I guess people say the first word more,” said Luke.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“It wasn't her fault if Elliot had expressed his feelings wrong. He always did that, as if life were a dance where everybody else knew the moves but Elliot was constantly and fatally out of step.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Does it get easier? Elliot thought, looking at her still pale face. Or is it just that you shut doors in your own heart and never open them again for fear of what is behind them?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands