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“If you don’t take your daily dose, it most definitely comes back.”
“You are enslaved by your idleness,” says the Mayor. “You are defeated by your complacency. You are doomed”– and here his voice rises suddenly, hitting doomed so hard half the crowd jumps– “by your good intentions!”
“If there are sides and our President is on one . . .” She glances back at me over her shoulder. “Then I am most definitely on the other.”
“And you can’t fight an army on your own.” She turns me gently back down the hallway, giving me a smile. “Not even the great and brave Viola Eade.” “I did it before,” I say. “I did with him.”
“If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.”
“To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it,”
What is it about men that makes them need to turn everything into a lesson?
“What happened? Are you hurt? I can–” But he just says, “It’s you.”
Better the devil you know. I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.
It’s not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
