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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."

"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."

"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."