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it would be this: that no two better people had ever gone to cleaning of their own free will, and what did that say about the lot of them who remained?
But they were like the occasional dreams of falling from great heights, some legacy of another time, broken fragments unearthed in each of their sleeping minds that suggested: We weren’t supposed to live like this.
It was like a sudden drop in the oxygen, triggering her appreciation.
Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.
The agony of the descent had been a tease, the discomfort of constant movement disguising itself as the fatigue of exercise.
As Juliette reached the top of the ramp, her head emerged into a lie, a grand and gorgeous untruth.
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.
Once guns were made, who would unmake them?
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
It makes perfect sense: we are descendants of a million generations of humans, apes, shrews, and lizards who were better safe than sorry. In nature, optimists taste great.
there is nothing out there as dark as our doubts, nor as dangerous as our inaction. Go out. See for yourselves. And if what you find there is broken, know that together we can fix it.
