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"He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. He didn't dare to turn and find his parents in the crowd. He couldn't bear to see their faces darkened with shame. Jonas bowed his head and searched through his mind. What had he done wrong?"
"You will be faced, now,” she explained gently, “with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage."
"There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship."
"What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?"
‘Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.’
‘Jonas stopped the bike wearily, lifted the child down, and realized with heartbreak how cold and weak Gabe had become.’
‘Behind him, across vast distance of space and time, from the place he had left, he though he heard music too. But perhaps it was just an echo.’
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