"He had put his hand up in class,……" — John Ajvide Lindqvist

"He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime."

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

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