She is why purgatory was invented.
(Fall on Your Knees )
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My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
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But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.
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The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
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Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
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Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.
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