"I - maybe shouldn't be saying this myself, I don't know if you have any training in - how to hold onto yourself, your you, when people seem to be telling you that you are something else, something not quite true to who you are -"

"But when Pilar told me that it would break something, to order you not to become a Keeper because that might hurt you, part of me was like, oh, yes, obviously on a deep level I know that's true even if I can't explain why at all."

"It could be wrong.  It happens, with deep feelings you can't put into words.  That's why humans ever evolved to use words for thinking and not just deep unverbalizable senses of truth."

"I - maybe shouldn't be saying this myself, I don't know if you have any training in - how to hold onto yourself, your you, when people seem to be telling you that you are something else, something not quite true to who you are -"

"But when Pilar told me that it would break something, to order you not to become a Keeper because that might hurt you, part of me was like, oh, yes, obviously on a deep level I know that's true even if I can't explain why at all."

"I could be wrong.  It happens, with deep feelings you can't put into words.  That's why humans ever evolved to use words for thinking and not just deep unverbalizable senses of truth."

"I - maybe shouldn't be saying this myself, I don't know if you have any training in - how to hold onto yourself, your you, when people seem to be telling you that you are something else, something not quite true to who you are -"

"But when Pilar told me that it would break something, to order you not to become a Keeper because that might hurt you, part of me was like, oh, yes, obviously on a deep level I know that's true even if I can't explain why at all."

"I could be wrong.  It happens, with deep feelings you can't put into words.  That's why selection-on-heritable-variation shaped humans to use words for thinking too, and not just deep unverbalizable senses of truth."

"I - maybe shouldn't be saying this myself, I don't expect you have any training in - how to hold onto yourself, your you, when people seem to be telling you that you are something else, something not quite true to who you are -"

"But when Pilar told me that it would break something, to order you not to become a Keeper because that might hurt you, part of me was like, oh, yes, obviously on a deep level I know that's true even if I can't explain why at all."

"I could be wrong.  It happens, with deep feelings you can't put into words.  That's why selection-on-heritable-variation shaped humans to use words for thinking too, and not just deep unverbalizable senses of truth."

"I - maybe shouldn't be saying this myself, I don't expect you have any training in - how to hold onto yourself, your you, when people seem to be telling you that you are something else, something not quite true to who you are -"

"But when Pilar told me that it would break something, to order you not to become a Keeper because that might hurt you, part of me was like, oh, yes, obviously on a deep level I know that's true even if I can't explain why."

"I could be wrong.  It happens, with deep feelings you can't put into words.  That's why selection-on-heritable-variation shaped humans to use words for thinking too, and not just deep unverbalizable senses of truth."