Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn__ need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It__ one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation__ incompetence.
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I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn__ need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It__ one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation__ incompetence.
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People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience_ but we__ be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives_ because we didn__ like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution?
Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose," Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands