Change, like healing, takes time.

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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.

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

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Some things are hard to let go of.

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