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"The world he once believed in - of reason, of medical ethics, of fundamental human dignity - is gone, replaced by something monstrous. And they have all let it happen, one small compromise at a time."

"But now he understands that words are another kind of tool, another way to shape the world."

"There were no good answers anymore, only choices about how to carry what felt unbearable."

"Life happens to us. How we choose to act, whom we choose to love - that's all we can control."

"I don't think you get to choose how grief finds you."

"Is that what war is? Something hidden but rising, quiet only until it's not?"

"I rather like seeing children read," he said. "It gives me hope."

"There must be more to life than dulling the ache of it."

"But what endures unchanged through fire might just carry the most powerful secret of all - that which seems like an ending is instead a beginning."

"...how closely we were molded by the people who had come before us. Forging ourselves forward either in their path - or in resistance to it instead."

"Reading's just something I do," she says.
"Yeah. Like air's something to breathe." Caleb says.

"But that claim of fearlessness became a state I tried to inhabit, an identity I eventually made my own."

"Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn't have to be so terrifying. That's on people, not the world."

"Don't let yourself panic. Don't give the Capitol that. They've taken enough already."

"That's what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size."

"There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on."

"All of us are evolutions of ourselves, changing over time as the calendar moves forward. Who we are when we leave this world is not who we were when we entered."

"It's surprising how much you can miss someone you're not sure ever really loved you."

"I suppose change likes to be subtle, sneaking in even when we think we're paying attention."

"Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn't know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they SHOULD be disturbed."

"Evander takes an automatic step away, because things like this are not for him - the outdoors and sunlight and hot summer days. He is an autumn leaf, meant to be pressed between the pages of an old book and forgotten."

"He wishes his brain moved in one direction, not a dozen all at the same time, and that he didn't pull apart in a panic if even one thing goes wrong. He tries, but somehow even trying means he's failed."

Facts: this is so cheesy.
Also facts: I am 100 % invested!

Wren: "I wonder how you'd sleep if you gave up coffee for good?"
Tate: "I'm not sure that's a life worth living."
😂😂 Same, my brother. Same.

"You ain't the only one with hurt, Junie. The world is full of it. And going through it thinking you're the only one carrying something is an easy way to lose the bit of love you might have."

"Everybody is always still trying to learn, day after painful day, how to be themselves."

"How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them first as human?"