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You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
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Kill me. If youβve ever been my friend, kill me.
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i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone
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Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.
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It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.
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Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.
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Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.
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I've been shucked and gone to heaven.
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I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. Almost insanity. "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!
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Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.
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KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please."
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.
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WICKED is good
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Maybe you should just press the button
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You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
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Rose took my nose, I suppose
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Dude, you tried to slice my you-know-what's off!"
Thomas laughed, something that he hadn't done in a long time. He welcomed it happily. "Too bad I didn't. Could've saved the world from future little Minhos.
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It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.
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Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.
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Holy crap, Iβm scared.β
βHoly crap, youβre human. You should be scared.
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I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.
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The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
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You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.
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What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?
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Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
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Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?
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No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.
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I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.
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But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.
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Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?
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They called you the Glue"
"The Glue?"
"Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together
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Yeah, right," Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his monster acne, and Thomas here'll actually smile for once."
Thomas turned to Minho and exaggerated a fake smile. "There, you happy?"
"Dude," he responded. "You are one ugly shank.
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Thank you for being my friends
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Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. βMan, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.
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If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.
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I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."
Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.
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He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.
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She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didnβt belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.
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Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked...
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'
Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.
'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.
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Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.
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And you, Tommyβ the boy said, lowering his voice. βYouβve got a lot of nerve coming here and asking me to leave with you. A lot of bloody nerve. The sight of you makes me sick
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Hunger.
It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.
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Didn't know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs
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So let's say our bloody goodbyes, and then you can promise to remember me from my good old days.
"I can't do that," Minho said.
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She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.
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Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured.
"Wonder what?"
"If being alive matters. If being dead might be a lot easier.
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Can you do that?β Thomas asked.
βHuh?β
βKill someone three times.β
βIβd figure out a way.
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Please, Tommy, Please.
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sometimes you don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.
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I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers."
"Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.
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Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?
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He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl.
'How do I look?'
'Like the ugliest shanky girl Iβve ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.'
'Thanks.
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All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan.
They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES.
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.
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He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the mirror lit up the message in a warm glow. It was two short sentences:
" KILL ME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN MY FRIEND, KILL ME.
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Rose took my nose, I suppose,β he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. βAnd it really blows.
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What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?
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Tonight, theyβd make their stand, once and for all.
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I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all β¦ your β¦ fault!
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Shuck it,β Minho responded. βIβm tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovinβ butt with twice this pain.β
Thomas shrugged. βI do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.
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Youβre disgusting when you eat,β Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. βItβs like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.
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Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.
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He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.
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Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?
Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...
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Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.
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Avoiding other people was his new goal in life.
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...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.
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When someone is close by, you just know it.
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False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
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Tomorrow," Minho added. "Somehow, some way.
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Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.
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You're either the bravest kid I've ever met or plain crazy.
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A veces el conocimiento da asco
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Thomas turned to see Newt there, smiling. That grin sent a wave of reassurance through Thomas, as if he were finding out the world was okay again.
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Scared. Thatβs good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. Itβs how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.
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Great. We're all bloody inspired,β Newt answered, then pointed over his shoulder, towards the Maze.
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It was her.
It was Teresa.
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I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!
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Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.
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Canβt take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We canβt give up. Ever.
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Great. We're all bloody inspired.
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Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there β maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury β had been truly awful.
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What was that shuck thing?" -Minho
"Magic goop that eat's people's heads, that's what it bloody was." -Newt
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I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.
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I didn't do anyting wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they [Minho and Alby] couldn't make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and... well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's [Alby] life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan's dinner. -Thomas
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And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again.
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What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.
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Minho looked at Thomas. βI nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.
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One must know the problem better than the solution, or the solution becomes the problem.
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Order," Newt continued. "Order. You say that bloody word over and over in your shuck head. Reason we're all sane around here is 'cause we work our butts off and mantain order. Order's the reason we put Ben out--can't have loonies runnin' around tryin' to kill people, now can we? Order. Last thing we need is you screwin' that up.
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What's up, Tommy?" Newt exclaimed, his face filled with genuine happiness at the pleasant surprise that'd been sprung on them. Thomas couldn't remember exactly how long it'd been since the last time he'd seen Newt. "You look bloody fantastic for three in the morning.
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Newt..."
"Do it before I become one of them!"
"I..."
"KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened.
"Please, Tommy. Please."
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.
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Reason we're here is because almost every lovin' kid in the Glade has come up to me in the last day or two either boohooing about Thomas or beggin' to take his bloody hand in marriage...
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Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.
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I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.
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[Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the wall. He threw it on the ground behind him and kept running.
βBread crumbs?β Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. Such odd glimpses of his past had almost stopped surprising him.
βBread crumbs,β Minho replied. βIβm Hansel, youβre Gretel.
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Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already strainingβhe felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain.
'Maybe we were lovers,' Teresa said.
Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, whoβd turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him.
'What?' he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color.
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Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows.
"You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. "Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of those shuck suits. Fancy stuff."
"Am I awake?" Thomas asked.
"You're awake. Now eatβyou look horrible. Almost as bad as Rat Man over there, reading his book.
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I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!"
. . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for saving his life, for being his friend when no one else would.
Thomas cried, wept like he'd never wept before. His great, racking sobs echoed through the chamber like the sounds of tortured pain. (pg 358 hardback)
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A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell to the ground. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself. The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The crunching sound rattled his bones. He looked around at the other openings. On all four sides of the Glade, the right walls were moving toward the left, closing the gap of the Doors.
Then one final boom rumbled across the Glade as all four Doors sealed shut for the night.
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