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"It'southward not that you should never love something then much that it can control you.
Information technology's that you lot demand to honey something that much so you tin never exist controlled.
It'due south not a weakness.
It's your best strength."
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Information technology's that you lot demand to honey something that much so you tin never exist controlled.
It'due south not a weakness.
It's your best strength."
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"In this globe of numbness and information overload, the power to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed."
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"To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for."
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"Existence a leader is making the people you love hate you a petty more than each mean solar day."
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"Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy yous e'er heard?"
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"If you lot always see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that state of war only destroys. No ane escapes from a war. No i. Not fifty-fifty the survivors."
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"We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else."
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"So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up i more time. "Once again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I tin can run across, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and experience and say.
"Ever," I say to him. "Every fourth dimension."
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And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I tin can run across, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and experience and say.
"Ever," I say to him. "Every fourth dimension."
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"He is deplorable-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
For every failure and every wrong-
For letting his pa downwardly-
And he'due south looking upwardly at me-
And he's begging me-
He's begging me-
Like I'1000 the merely one who tin forgive him-
Like information technology'due south only me who's got the ability-
Todd?-
Please-
And all I can say is "Davy-"
And the fear and the terror in his Dissonance is too much-
It's too much-
And so it stops.
Davy slumps, optics still open up, eyes nevertheless staring back at me, optics all the same request (I swear) for me to forgive him.
And he lies at that place, still.
Davy Prentiss is dead."
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For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
For every failure and every wrong-
For letting his pa downwardly-
And he'due south looking upwardly at me-
And he's begging me-
He's begging me-
Like I'1000 the merely one who tin forgive him-
Like information technology'due south only me who's got the ability-
Todd?-
Please-
And all I can say is "Davy-"
And the fear and the terror in his Dissonance is too much-
It's too much-
And so it stops.
Davy slumps, optics still open up, eyes nevertheless staring back at me, optics all the same request (I swear) for me to forgive him.
And he lies at that place, still.
Davy Prentiss is dead."
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"He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so keen information technology feels similar I'm standing on the edge of an abyss, that I'm about to fall down into him, into black and so empty and solitary there'd never be a way out.
"Todd," I say once more, a take hold of in my voice. "On the ledge, under the waterfall, exercise you remember what you said to me? Practise you remember what you said to salve me?"
He's shaking his head slowly. "I've washed terrible things, Viola. Terrible things-"
"Nosotros all autumn, you said." I'm gripping his hand now. "We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again."
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"Todd," I say once more, a take hold of in my voice. "On the ledge, under the waterfall, exercise you remember what you said to me? Practise you remember what you said to salve me?"
He's shaking his head slowly. "I've washed terrible things, Viola. Terrible things-"
"Nosotros all autumn, you said." I'm gripping his hand now. "We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again."
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"Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the h2o stretching out from you until information technology'south beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and then much bigger than even the blackness beyond seems because the bounding main hides what it contains."
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"But what he's forgetting," she says. "What he's forgotting is that me and Todd, we ran halfway across this planet together, past ourselves. We vanquish his craziest preacher. We outran an unabridged army and survived existence shot and beaten and chased and we bloody well stayed live this whole time without being diddled upwardly or tortured to expiry or dying in battle or anything."
She takes her hand of Lee so she'south balancing merely against me.
"Me and Todd? Together confronting the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a risk."
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She takes her hand of Lee so she'south balancing merely against me.
"Me and Todd? Together confronting the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a risk."
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"You lot notice that he does not inquire, Where am I?" says the Mayor's vocalisation, moving out in that location, somewhere. "His showtime words are, Where is she? And his Dissonance says the same. Interesting."
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"Y'all beloved him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact.
"I exercise," I say. As well a fact."
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"I exercise," I say. As well a fact."
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"Or perhaps nosotros should only enquire Todd."
I pound the glass correct at his confront. He doesn't even blanch.
And so she says, "Todd would never tell you lot. Never."
And the Mayor but looks at me.
And he smiles
I pound the glass correct at his confront. He doesn't even blanch.
And so she says, "Todd would never tell you lot. Never."
And the Mayor but looks at me.
And he smiles
My tummy sinks, my heart drops, my caput feels so light I feel similar I'thou going to drop right to the ground.
Oh, Viola-
Viola, please-
Forgive me.
"Captain Hammar," the Mayor says and Viola's plunged into the water again, unable to non scream out in fearfulness as down she goes.
"NO!" I shout, pressing myself confronting the mirror.
But the Mayor ain't even looking at her.
He's looking right at me, as if he could come across me even if I was backside a brick wall.
"STOP It!" I shout as she'southward thrashing again-
And more than-
And more-
"VIOLA!"
And I'grand pounding even tho my hands are breaking-
And Mr. Hammar is grinning and holding her there-
"VIOLA!"
And her wrist are starting to bleed from where she's pulling-
"I'LL KILL You lot!"-
I'yard shouting into the Mayor'south face-
With all my Noise-
"I'LL Kill Yous!"-
And still property her there-
"VIOLA! VIOLA!"-
But it's Davy-
Of all people-
It's Davy who stops it."
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"She tried to kill you, Viola. She tried to blow you lot up... You don't owe her nothing,' he says.
But I experience his arms on me and I'grand realizing things don't seem so incommunicable anymore. I feel Todd touching me and there's acrimony rising in my gut only it's not at him and I grunt and I pull myself up once more, leaning on him to keep me at that place as I stand up. 'I do owe her,' I say. 'I owe her the look on her confront when she sees me alive."
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But I experience his arms on me and I'grand realizing things don't seem so incommunicable anymore. I feel Todd touching me and there's acrimony rising in my gut only it's not at him and I grunt and I pull myself up once more, leaning on him to keep me at that place as I stand up. 'I do owe her,' I say. 'I owe her the look on her confront when she sees me alive."
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"You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows yous aren't a killer, Todd."
He pushes Viola forward again -
She calls out from the pain of it -
Viola, I think -
Viola -
I grit my teeth and raise the burglarize -
I cock it -
And I say what's truthful -
"I would kill to save her," I say."
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He pushes Viola forward again -
She calls out from the pain of it -
Viola, I think -
Viola -
I grit my teeth and raise the burglarize -
I cock it -
And I say what's truthful -
"I would kill to save her," I say."
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"Never trust a politico, Todd. They have no fixed eye, and then you lot tin never believe them."
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"Dogs don't got the problems of people.
Dogs tin can be happy any quondam time."
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Dogs tin can be happy any quondam time."
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"We just go along on having to salvage each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say"
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"I hope not," I say"
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"So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you then special?"
Now that, I remember, is a very skillful asking."
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Now that, I remember, is a very skillful asking."
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"Just cuz yer going there and I'k staying here," I say. "Information technology don't hateful we're departing."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you once again," I say, notwithstanding looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head."
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"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you once again," I say, notwithstanding looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head."
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"And what exactly do y'all think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, just you don't know what to practise with it."
VIOLA
"Looks like I'm doing fine," I say."
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VIOLA
"Looks like I'm doing fine," I say."
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"I was merely trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find y'all, hoping you hadn't left me behind."
"Never," I say. "Not never."
He looks back upward at me. "I'd never leave you neither."
"Y'all hope?"
"Cantankerous my heart, promise to die," he says, grin shyly.
"I promise, besides," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again."
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"Never," I say. "Not never."
He looks back upward at me. "I'd never leave you neither."
"Y'all hope?"
"Cantankerous my heart, promise to die," he says, grin shyly.
"I promise, besides," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again."
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"Who told yous that?" I say. "Davy Prentiss?"
He blinks. "What?"
"What practice yous mean what?" My voice is harder now. "Your new best friend. The human being who shot me, Todd, and who you ride to piece of work with laughing every morning."
He clenches his hands into fists.
"You've been spying on me?" he says. "Iii months I don't run into you lot, three months I don't hear nil from y'all and you been spying? Is that what yer doing in your spare time when yer not blowing people upward?"
"Yeah," I yell, my voice getting louder to match his. "Three months of defending you lot to people who'd only exist too happy to call y'all enemy, Todd. Three months of wondering why the hell you're working so hard for the Mayor and how he knew to become correct for the ocean the day after we spoke." He winces, but I go on going, thrusting out my arm and pulling up on the sleeve. "Three months wondering why you put these on women!"
His face changes in an instant. He actually calls out equally if he felt the pain himself. He puts a hand to his oral fissure to stifle it merely his Racket is suddenly done with black. He moves his fingertips of his other manus within reach of the band, hovering over my peel, over the band that'll never exist removed unless I lose my arm. The skin is still crimson, and ring 1391 still trobs, despite the healing of iii mistresses.
"Oh, no," he says. "Oh, no."
The side door opens and the man who permit me in leans out. "Everything all right out in that location, Lieutenant?"
"Lieutenant?" I say.
"We're fine," Todd chokes a piddling. "Nosotros're fine."
The human waits for a second, so goes dorsum inside.
"Lieutenant?" I say once more, lowering my vocalisation.
Todd's leant downwards, his hands on his knees, staring at the floor. "It wasn't me, was information technology?" he says, his vocalisation tranquility, besides. "I didn't-" He gestures over again at the band without looking up. "I didn't exercise it without knowing it was you, did I?"
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He blinks. "What?"
"What practice yous mean what?" My voice is harder now. "Your new best friend. The human being who shot me, Todd, and who you ride to piece of work with laughing every morning."
He clenches his hands into fists.
"You've been spying on me?" he says. "Iii months I don't run into you lot, three months I don't hear nil from y'all and you been spying? Is that what yer doing in your spare time when yer not blowing people upward?"
"Yeah," I yell, my voice getting louder to match his. "Three months of defending you lot to people who'd only exist too happy to call y'all enemy, Todd. Three months of wondering why the hell you're working so hard for the Mayor and how he knew to become correct for the ocean the day after we spoke." He winces, but I go on going, thrusting out my arm and pulling up on the sleeve. "Three months wondering why you put these on women!"
His face changes in an instant. He actually calls out equally if he felt the pain himself. He puts a hand to his oral fissure to stifle it merely his Racket is suddenly done with black. He moves his fingertips of his other manus within reach of the band, hovering over my peel, over the band that'll never exist removed unless I lose my arm. The skin is still crimson, and ring 1391 still trobs, despite the healing of iii mistresses.
"Oh, no," he says. "Oh, no."
The side door opens and the man who permit me in leans out. "Everything all right out in that location, Lieutenant?"
"Lieutenant?" I say.
"We're fine," Todd chokes a piddling. "Nosotros're fine."
The human waits for a second, so goes dorsum inside.
"Lieutenant?" I say once more, lowering my vocalisation.
Todd's leant downwards, his hands on his knees, staring at the floor. "It wasn't me, was information technology?" he says, his vocalisation tranquility, besides. "I didn't-" He gestures over again at the band without looking up. "I didn't exercise it without knowing it was you, did I?"
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