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• Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

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  Simple, Soul, Humanity

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• I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

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  Character, Hands, Just Being

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.43, Macmillan

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• I am stronger than my trials.

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  Stronger, Trials

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

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  Running, Car, Use

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• You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.

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  Choices, Kira, Away From You

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

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  People, Good Person, Said

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.37, Macmillan

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• This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.

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  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

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  Winning, Order, Play

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

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  Impossible Things, World, Natural

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again.

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  Fighting, Reality, Important

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing.

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  Distance, Fall, Moon

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• Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice" "No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.

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  Fate, Keys, People

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• I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret.

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  Hurt, Taken, Thinking

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• Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.

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  Real, Moving, People

  Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.34, Macmillan

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• It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

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  People, Killers, Bigs

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• Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.' 'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.' 'But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!' 'I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.

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  Mom, Dad, Guy

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• APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

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  Girl, Mean, Years

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.41, Macmillan

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• It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

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  Interesting, Max, Matter

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira

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  Medicine, People, Watches

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• I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Firsts

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• I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.

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  Blood, Eyebrows, Needs

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

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• Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303

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  Mother, Kira, Way

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• It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

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  Mother, Cutting, Feel Better

  Dan Wells (2010). “Mr. Monster”, p.2, Macmillan

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• Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings.

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  Sports, Kings, Hockey

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

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  Shooting, Thanks, Refrain

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