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1 " I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I? "
― Julie Berry , All the Truth That's in Me
2 " I have no words to save you. "
3 " If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough. "
4 " I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle. "
5 " My head is full of seeing you see me. "
6 " The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn. "
7 " Melvin Brands took bread, and the foot, wrapped in camphored cloth. "
8 " There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you. "
9 " And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue? "
10 " It's always you ladybird," he says softly "don't you know? "
11 " Like the clanging of the bell, the truth crashes in upon me. At last I understand. He took away my voice to save me. And now, to save myself, I take it back. "
12 " This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me lame for a time. "
13 " Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless. "
14 " It's a cold world when no one will touch you. "
15 " Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? "
16 " I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle. Even if that means enlisting the devil's help. "
17 " To tell the truth will make me loathsome in your eyes.Even more than I already am.I pledge to give you all the truth that's in me.And you want me to tell you this. "
18 " A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me. "
19 " There's no justice in this world, the things that happen to people. "
20 " The stars' cold stare reminds me: worse than a sinner, I'm a thief. I steal the touch you would not choose to give me.You'll never know you've been robbed. "
