John Wyndham - The Chrysalids (1955)

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There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

John Wyndham

The essential quality of life is living, the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

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I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body.... And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken.

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If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed — I am only beaten.

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