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1 " There will come a time, a pastor once told him in prison, when you believe everything is finished. But that will only be the beginning. "
― Loreth Anne White , The Slow Burn of Silence
2 " the dry wind soughed again through the trees, stirring branches as it moved like an invisible spirit through the forest. With the susurration came another thought, "
3 " two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. "
4 " People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. My job is to tell the truth, kultaseni. That is my belief with this newspaper of mine . . . that’s why I started it. "
5 " People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. "
6 " Hannah Arendt, a German-American political theorist. She used it in her 1960s thesis, where she postulated that all great evils in history, the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premise of their government or state. "
7 " Maybe she’d given her too much. It didn’t matter. She didn’t have time to think about Rachel now. Quinn was dead quiet. Ash-mud smeared thick across the windshield. She bent forward, straining to see through the streaks. Smoke was obliterating everything. Suddenly she made out the lights of the Thunderbird Lodge. With a shaking hand, she palmed her wet ball cap off her head, trying to think this through. It shouldn’t have been like this. Her only weapons were bear spray, ice ax. Ropes. Her strength and endurance. The ketamine was gone now. Shit. She’d gotten this far. There was no going back now, surely? Perspiration dampened her body. She pulled in next to the "
8 " There are two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. "
9 " Not by a goddamn long shot. "