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Prairie Johnson : Knowledge is a rumor until it lives in the body.
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Khatun : You can go with your father and be in painless peace together, or you can take the bird and find out who you really are.
Prairie Johnson : That isn't a fair choice.
Khatun : To exist is to survive unfair choices.
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[last lines]
Prairie Johnson : When I swallowed that bird I felt the whole thing flash through me in an instant. Like a way to move through the world, through worlds. And if I don't think about it, I know it. A self, like a a me in there, that doesn't even belong to me, and it wants to come out, it wants me to call it by name. But it's - I feel like it's waiting for you. To hear it in you, too.
Homer : I want to. You know I want to.
Prairie Johnson : It's a name truer than Prairie, than Nina even. It sounds like... Away.
Homer : Away.
Prairie Johnson : Mmm. Away Yeah, but maybe Oh-A, Oh - Oh way? I don't know, when I say it out loud, it all falls apart. Homer?
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Prairie Johnson : The biggest mistake I made was believing that if I cast a beautiful net, I'd catch only beautiful things.
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Prairie Johnson : We've been acting like lab rats. Lab rats are only powerless because they don't understand that they're in an experiment. But they're just as much a part of it as the scientist, in some ways even more. See, we could take it over. His experiment is our way out.
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Elias Rahim : I guess I became an agent to catch the bad guys. That's always been the FBI's focus, the perpetrator. But, uh the more cases I worked, the more I realized that, you know, the punishment never really mattered, or it was never enough. No one was thinking about the victims, mainly women and children. A few of us started the Victim Support Program, and it feels good. It feels satisfying. Impacting people's lives without shooting at them.
Prairie Johnson : What if I told you I'm trying to help people?
Elias Rahim : I would say that's a noble impulse.
Prairie Johnson : Without knowing the details?
Elias Rahim : Might be I *do* know, in a way.
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[first lines]
Prairie Johnson : I couldn't feel pain. I couldn't sense time. I couldn't understand where I was. But I could see. I could see. I remembered Homer and Rachel and Scott screaming my name. They were no longer with me. The sudden rush of loss made me realize that for the second time in my life, I was dead.
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Prairie Johnson : We aren't captives. We aren't lab rats. We aren't unloved or unlucky. We're angels.
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Prairie Johnson : He was an explorer, and death was his frontier. Whatever his reasons, Homer never gave up on his mission: to die awake.
