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• "You don't know what makes him tick," Turner said. "You don't know what makes anybody tick. I used to think out there is out there and then once you're in here, you're in here. That everybody in Nickel was different because of what being here does to you. Spencer and them, too - maybe out there in the free world, they're good people. Smiling. Nice to their kids." His mouth squinched up, like he was sucking on a rotten tooth. "But now that I been out and I been brought back, I know there's nothing in here that changes people. In here and out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore." He was talking in circles, everything pointing back at itself. Elwood said, "It's against the law." State law, but also Elwood's. If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in o... (查看原文)

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• The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order. The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change. He never listened, never saw what was plainly in front of him, and now he had been plucked from the world altogether. The only voices were those of the boys below, the shouts and laughter and fearful cries, as if he floated in a bitter heaven. Colson Whitehead. The Nickel Boys (Kindle Locations 2495-2500). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edit... (查看原文)

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