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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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“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
“Any oppressive system needs an element of arbitrary punishment just to keep people properly on their toes.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“A people without hope, what will they do? One of two things: nothing, or everything.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
“You ever think about the fundamental paradox of our society? How they build a tight-knit machine of a state by breaking everyone down into solitary units turned against each other? How you compel mass obedience out of the most individualistic drives of selfishness, greed and fear?”
― 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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