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The Sirens
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She knew that he would hide behind his wealthy background and his lawyer father. And perhaps something inside her had cracked. All her life, she’d taken for granted that doing the right thing—being conscientious and kind and
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“Any oppressive system needs an element of arbitrary punishment just to keep people properly on their toes.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“They want very specific answers from science. Black and white answers to complex questions. Everything sorted into predetermined boxes.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“They have full protective gear on, masks included, and gas grenades in case they need to put down a general riot. But most of all, they spark fear. That’s how they get you. How a small group of uniformed stormtroopers can always face down a turbulent crowd. Fear of their weapons, of their discipline, of the brutal force they can mete out.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“The Mandate is very into polar binaries, it’s in all their rhetoric. “What?” they’d say. “You don’t want this unpleasant circumstance we’re forcing on you? Then you’re obviously in favour of this absurdly exaggerated opposite we’ve just invented.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“the hardest thing about sacrifice is not knowing if it’ll be worth it. What’s the point in taking the bullet if the person behind you in the charge loses heart, dithers, runs away? You may as well have stayed at home. You only have one life after all. It can be very hard to know when to throw it away.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
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