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If you’re going to be a pariah, you might as well be their queen.
The world is built on false assumptions.
“They are unintended consequences,” he says. “These days men can build worlds, but they lack the power to control them.”
And that’s the true test, I realize—the one that reveals who’s human and who’s not. Real people rarely do what you wish they would do. But that’s what makes an unexpected kiss behind a high school dumpster so damn magical.
“I don’t want someone who was made for me. I want a real person to choose me.”
“I could pretend that’s the truth, but it wouldn’t be real,” I said. “Why not?” she asked. “He’s just a picture in a book. Why can’t he be who you want him to be?”
We aren’t here to talk about Carole’s fashion choices. If she wants to dress like a soccer mom from San Antonio, that’s her business, not ours.”
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“No, see, that’s the big secret,” she whispers. “It’s not virtual if it changes who you are. All of this is real, Simon. It’s real.”
“The real world?” asks the Child. “Why is your world the real one? How can you be so certain you humans were not created by someone else? Does your history not speak of a Creator too?”
“This is our reality,” the Child continues. “Your kind comes here to use us for pleasure or murder us for sport. When we die here, there’s no other place we can go.”
