“If you opt out, you don’t change anything.”
“Why should I run round helping to get power for a group of idiots who’ll end up just as dangerous as the ones already in power?”
You really don’t think anyone can make things better?”

—  Jane Rogers, book The Testament of Jessie Lamb

“No. What’s going to happen will happen.”
Source: The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 137)

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