Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
But now, I am also learning this: WE can be mended. We mend each other.
Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
This is bizarre, I say.I think it's beautiful, he says.I give him a look.What? He laughs a little. They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them car...
I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say.
I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?
He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.