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sixty-four years since the president
Government control
identified love as a disease,
The disease is love
It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.
Why love is a disease
of The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, or The Book of Shhh,
until it has been made safe for the under-eighteens, we
It is not perfect so they don't let children get it.
The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
My stomach twists, and I have to close my eyes again to keep from remembering the hot, scratchy dress I was forced to wear when my mother died;
She ate alot of oranges at tbe funural.
My aunt Carol hasn’t heard her say a word in the whole six years and three months of Grace’s life—
Her cousin is mute for some reason.
Hearts are fragile things. That’s why you have to be so careful.
The academic assessors will analyze my strengths and weaknesses, and then assign me to a school and a major.
It is restrictions they get analyzed and tested and people like accesors get to decide what the get to do
The evaluation is the last step, so I can get paired. In the coming months the evaluators will send me a list of four or five approved matches. One of them will become my husband after I graduate college
Answer for 1st half of chapter two question
The evaluators will do their best to match me with people who received a similar score in the evaluations. As much as possible they try to avoid any huge disparities in intelligence, temperament, social background, and age.
Example of conformity
It’s only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my mom’s death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.
Her mother killed herself
the border,
What border?
Portland
The setting is Portland Oregan near the Ocean.
She whips her head in both directions, as though expecting to find regulators or evaluators lurking in the bright morning street.
Surveillance
“You can’t be really happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.
But at that second the blue door bursts open and a streaming blur of cows—actual, real, live, sweating, mooing cows—come thundering into the lab.
The evaluators are hopping up onto the table now, as walls of brown and speckled cow flanks fold around them.
Some of the cows have wigs hanging crazily from their heads, and others are half-swaddled in gowns identical to the one I’m wearing. For a second I’m sure I’m dreaming. Maybe this whole day has been a dream, and I’ll wake up to discover that I’m still at home, in bed, on the morning of my evaluation.
You have to learn that people are always listening.
recording them, monitoring conversations for target words like love, or Invalids, or sympathizer. No
“I said, I prefer the ocean when it’s gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.”
websites full of unauthorized stuff—opinions and message boards and video clips and music.” “And you found one.”
Symptoms of Amor Deliria Nervosa PHASE ONE preoccupation; difficulty focusing dry mouth perspiration, sweaty palms fits of dizziness and disorientation reduced mental awareness; racing thoughts; impaired reasoning skills PHASE TWO periods of euphoria; hysterical laughter and heightened energy periods of despair; lethargy
The people who live in these houses have been identified as troublemakers or resisters.
The reason why specific houses are raided and not others
Tanglewild Lane
42 Tanglewild Lane.
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. —The Book of Shhh, p. 31
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