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Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys
Elwood said, "It's against the law." State law, but also Elwood's. If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.
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Donna Tartt
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The Goldfinch
What if - is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions-? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes - the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?
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Terry Pratchett
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Reaper Man
I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.
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Terry Pratchett
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Snuff
… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
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L.M. Montgomery
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Chronicles of Avonlea
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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Jeanne DuPrau
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The People of Sparks
Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."Reverse the direction?"Yes, turn it around."How would you do that?"You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the way is dark and long,Blue will shine with loving light.
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Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to thèguilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
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Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451
And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.
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William Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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V.C. Andrews
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Pearl in the Mist
Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.
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