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"You're a liar. You lie about terrible things and you're lucky that terrible things happen in the world so often you can take credit for it—but you can't see a thing. You make the world sound like a nightmare to keep us scared to ever leave, but there are amazing things we're missing, trapped here."

You've got to have faith! It had lots of meanings. Sometimes it meant "stop complaining" and sometimes it meant "stop asking questions" but mostly it meant "put your trust in him and the rest will take care of itself."

I wanted them to see a kid just like them, someone who'd done them a good turn, someone they trusted, even though I was nothing like them: an eighteen-year-old runaway getting my first taste of freedom, nothing in my pockets but my two hands, nothing in my mouth but lies.

Invisible, I could walk for hours without anyone bothering me. I could walk the streets at any hour of the night. I could pass by a group of men and not hear a single comment—no catcalls, no leering, no requests to "Smile, beautiful!" that sent a lightning bolt of rage down my spine. I could slip into the night and walk to the lake and lie out on the huge rocks that shored up the promenade and gaze at the stars...