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There will never be a good time to tell the truth. It is never going to be easy.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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The truth can only be protected if it is not hidden. [...] We have to fight their lies with our facts. If we hide, they win.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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Words have more power than you can imagine. [...] They can give you strength, but they can also put you in danger. They can change your entire world. [...] Once you know something, you can't unknow it.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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[My great-grandfather] warned my grandfather before he died about the danger of destroying books, because, no matter the justification, the action is always meant to eliminate the ideas and the history those books contain. History can only be rewritten if no one remembers the way it existed before.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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It's easy to just keep putting one foot in front of another. It's harder to stand up and fight, especially for something that doesn't seem to affect you.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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Words have power. They are the way we pass along history and knowledge and thoughts and ideas. Sometimes conflicting ideas about the same subject. Books - real books like the one in your hands - give everyone equal access to those ideas. Limit the words people can see and you limit their power. Limit the words heard on the news and you shrink people's understanding of the world to what you want them to see. [...] Is it really a choice if you aren't able to see all the options?
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))
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An artist's job is to look at the world and share the truths they see. I had no choice but to look, and I couldn't ignore what I saw. [...] Truth can be dangerous, but it is more dangerous to pretend it's not there.
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Joelle Charbonneau (Verify (Verify, #1))