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“Hate Orgoreyn? No, how should I? How does one hate a country, or love one? ... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”

I don’t like Mare:/ There’s really nothing cool in being rude, and because the story is told from her own perspective as well, I get to see how she thinks which doesn’t justify her rudeness at all.

“They’re not excluded from society, but they’re tolerated with some disdain, as homosexuals are in many bisexual societies.”

“Being capable of all evil and committing none, that’s the definition of good.”

“Individual characteristics are more human than ethnical characteristics. To restate this: this individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.”

“My mother once said that the planet was like an enormous womb, and every single one of us was a fetus. Death was nothing to be afraid of. It was just birth to another world, and someone would be waiting for us there.”

“I feel a rush of happiness so strong my legs fill up with energy and I just want to run”

I’ve been there. The night of August 6th.

“It was the most pained noise I’ve ever heard another human being make. No one should be capable of that sort of agony and still live.”

Quote:

- “I have twenty books before me, every one of them begun. You will laugh when I tell you that I cannot read a single one of them simply because I want so much to read them all.”

Same.

Certain school bullying scenes were quite triggering for me and I needed to pause for a while to continue reading.