Perfect Quotes
"There’s the person who you think you should be and there’s the person who you really are. I’ve lost a sense of both."
"A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place."
"A weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else."
"They’re survivors, that’s why. They’re fighting for their place."
"I’m a weed. I’m a survivor. I’m Flawed."
"It can take a lifetime to build up a friendship—it can take a second to make an enemy."
"But who called these weeds? Not nature. It’s people who did that."
"I don’t believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgment of the power of will, the recognition of a goal."
"I helped him because I had compassion and logic. I felt for him, and helping him made sense."
"We are told that the judges are right, the branded are wrong."
"The moment we’re beyond making wishes is either the moment we’re truly happy, or the moment to give up."
"Each time, the Whistleblowers come so close to my hiding place I can barely breathe."
"I’m your flesh and blood; have faith that I got away."
"It’s important that you know that I don’t have a problem with Flawed people."
"There’s goodness in here, yes, but there’s something you need to think about. What exactly do you think you can do here? What’s your role?"
"You attract your fears, art imitates life, life imitates art, and so on."
"If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: You just have to find it."
"I was hoping for so much more from you. You know the odds are not on your side. A Flawed verdict has never been overturned."
"That's the worst-case scenario. I never lose, don't intend on doing so now."
"I love movies. Aged cop is about to retire, but he solves one last case and gets shot."
"How much of her campaign rests on your shoulders alone, Celestine?"
"Every power couple has one member who's less successful—it always causes cracks, but suck it up, some people figure out ways to work it out."
"I’m used to complications. I suggest representing you both separately, no offense, Carrick."
"You're a tough cookie; I knew you'd be fine."
"Footage? Well, now, that changes things."
"The spine is not an official branding zone and there was no anesthetic; it’s outside of Guild guidelines, so Crevan branded me himself."
"I’m afraid I’ve let you down. I’ve fallen for the oldest trick in the film, which is to jump the gun, assume I’d heard and seen everything in my time."
"The nearest Whistleblower is one hour away, at best, which gives us forty-five minutes to devise our plan."
"We have an exceptional camera system around this house. Our friend Crevan has given us plenty of reason to have them."
"You’re the only Flawed person the public has ever really rooted for. You’re allowing them to see that we’re human; it’s because of you that they’re hearing our stories, and only through sharing our stories can we make changes."
"I don’t have it. A secret that I’ve kept from him."
"Unconventionality is my way of thinking, of being. That is my strength, Celestine."
"You think a piece of video holds that much power? I know it does. Because I know what’s on it."
"I’m not waiting around for Crevan to call me back, to be a sitting duck for the Whistleblowers."
"You’ve made us suffer enough. Why don’t you just keep your head down and do what you’re told, Celestine North?"
"It was on a bus that I lost my faith in humanity. It was on a bus that it was restored."
"To err is human. You learn from your mistakes. The rest of the world uses these phrases. If this is true, and Judge Crevan and our current leaders have never made mistakes, then it is us who can teach them a thing or two, because I stand before you the most branded, the most Flawed person in the world."
"But Judge Crevan, there are two sides to every story. When you tell me that I have greed, I call it desire. Desire for a fair and equal society."
"Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of. Mistakes teach us to take responsibility. They teach us what works and what doesn’t."
"We are not just walking mistakes, we are human."
I’m not wearing this," a woman shouts. "I am not wearing this.
"This is not what the Guild was founded for."
You want me to step down?" "I want control. Full control.
"You can’t do this. The Guild was founded by my family. It has always been led by a Crevan."
"It’s going to take her a while to settle after that frustration."
"If the space is there for us, all we have to do is alter the feelings."
"Sometimes you must be selfish for the greater good."
"My heart pounds at the enormity of the choice facing me."
"Judge Crevan was right in his interview when he said that punishment helps people become more self-aware."
"The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced."
"For someone to win, somebody else must lose."
"There’s the person you think you should be and there’s the person you really are."
"I’m not seeking perfection; I’m not seeking justice. I’m seeking balance."
"The irony is that he was lucky, the bullet missed his small intestine, colon, liver, and abdominal blood vessels."
"I’m alone in the strawberry beds, eyes closed, face lifted to the sun. I am free, but even better than that, I feel free."