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“No I haven’t. I’m my own. I don’t have to be you.”
“If I’m mean, it’s my own mean.”

That healed me

“I don’t think I’ve ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe we are negative.”

“I know what you hate. You hate something in them you can’t understand. You don’t hate their evil. You hate the good in them you can’t get at. I wonder what you want, what final thing.”