This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

...Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word 'No'. Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances.