I have no place to go. If I‘m purged, I cease to exist. If theyreprogram me, I cease to exist. I clench my jaw and don‘t budge.
It‘s over either way. - P255
"I havenever had the opportunity to speak with one of you. A relic,
that is," she says. "You are one of the few left who actually expe-rienced what your kind had become. Polluting your own airand rivers and oceans... for profit. Starving some so others be-come bloated. It is for those reasons the Collective exists." - P256
That not all cuentos havehappy endings.
Each story, each person isdifferent. Messy sometimes. But colorful, mismatched, and beautiful.
"The Collec-tive won‘t succeed in the end. You all numb yourselves to erasewho we really are. The tonics. The Cogs. But you can‘t programout love and caring for one another." - P257
What the Collective doesn‘t understand is by honoring thepast, our ancestors, our cultures and remembering our mis-takes-we become better.
I saw that love in the wall of wedding photos and birth cer-tificates. Suma‘s baby book. Nyla, Crick... Voxy will never haveany of that kind of love. - P258
if millions tookthis path before, why am I not braver? - P263
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than thesuffering itself." - P264
"No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." - P265
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