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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Some things are hard to let go of.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
