Independent Study (The Testing, #2)

by Joelle Charbonneau

Earthquakes, windstorms, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes swept across the globe, destroying in a matter of years what took humans centuries to create.

Thinking something is true doesn’t make it so. Perception is almost as important as reality.

Students with Obidiah’s potential cannot be allowed to work outside the framework of the Commonwealth.

People could start turning to them for leadersh ip instead of following the course our current leaders have set out for us. That kind of disharmony would undermine everything we have done for the last one hundred years.”

Control is an illusion. Only a handful of people have the ability to shape their lives and the lives of those around them.

“It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.

All because I trusted something created by people who are supposed to be experts.

just because something is created by people in power doesn’t mean it is to be trusted.