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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

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It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

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"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

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We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

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Except I didn't say eff

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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believ…

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