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- Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
- Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,…
- ...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at…
- Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how…
- Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down…
- Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that…
- I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows…
- If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a…
- Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No,…
- No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life…
- People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being…
- It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so…
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