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“After being with those savage men, I find it vexing to be near any man, and—” She broke off, shrugging helplessly. “I know that it’s strange and unreasonable, but I’m unable to rid myself of it. I didn’t mean to offend you.”
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“A people without hope, what will they do? One of two things: nothing, or everything.”
― 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
“They want very specific answers from science. Black and white answers to complex questions. Everything sorted into predetermined boxes.”
― 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
“But then the Mandate was all about those neat boxes, those false binaries. Orthodox and unorthodox; his and hers; us and them.”
― Alien Clay
― Alien Clay
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