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  1. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.
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  2. E.M. Forster _ A Room with a View

    A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood-a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.
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  3. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    Who rebels with mathematics?"
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  4. Alice Sebold _ The Lovely Bones

    I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really."
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  5. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    They think I'm not entirely 'grounded in reality', they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back programmed like some robot, dressed in a tye-dyed shirt and eating tuna sandwiches," Mandy explained, a horrified look on her face. "You're eighteen, not twelve! Would they really send you to some rat's nest like that?" Wendy questioned in mock horror. "Aw hell no, if you get sent there, they'll make you hold hands and sing songs about caring! And they'll force you to recycle everything in blue canisters, and to discuss your emotions in front of groups of bratty little dopes!" "Dear god, they'll have geeky youth wiener roasts at night, and no locks on the doors!" Mandy added, eyes wide. "…It'll be the day pigs fly, my parents have the camp brochure on the fridge but they'll never go through with sending me there. They always forget.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.
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  7. Anthony Burgess _ A Clockwork Orange

    But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of the brave malenky selves fighting these big machines?"nah, that's too serious. How's about:"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
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  8. George Orwell _ 1984

    Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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  9. Philip K. Dick _ The Transmigration of Timothy

    Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
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