–Set me free?Don’t you realize what you did to me? You nearly drove me mad! I hate you. I hate you! Set me free? You put me in a prison to set me free?!
-You were already in a prison. You’ve been in a prison all your life.
-Shut up! I don’t want to hear it. I wasn’t in a prison. I was happy! I was happy here.
-Happiness is the most insidious prison of all, Evey.
-That’s warped! That’s evil and it’s wrong! What gives you the right to judge? Who are you to say what’s not good enough?!
-You were born in a prison, Evey. I didn’t put you there. I just showed you the bars. You’ve been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there’s an outside world.
-Shut up! You’re mad! I don’t want to hear it!
-That’s because you’re afraid, Evey. You’re afraid because you can feel freedom closing in on you. You’re afraid because freedom is terrifying.
-I can’t feel anything! There’s nothing left to feel! Don’t you understand?
-Don’t back away from it, Evey. Part of you understands the truth even as part pretends not to.Woman, this is the most important moment in your life. Don’t run from it.
-I don’t know what — Oh god — I can’t breathe
-Good. You’re almost there. Go closer. Feel the shape of it.
-What are you doing to me? I can’t breathe.
– You were in a cell. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body.
-I feel — I feel like I’m going to burst.
-You said you’d rather die. You faced the fear of your own death and you were calm. Try to feel now what you felt then. –
-Oh god — I felt — Like an angel –Oh god, V, I’m so scared. What’s happening to me?
-The door of the cage is open, Evey. All that you feel is the wind from outside. Don’t be afraid.Try to walk. The lift will take us to the roof.
– The roof? Outside? I — I don’t want to be blindfolded.
-No, Evey. No more blindfolds.. Do you feel it?
-Everything’s so — different.
-I know. Five years ago, I too stared beneath a night like this. Naked under a roaring sky. The night is yours, Evey. Seize it. Encircle it within your arms. Bury it in your heart up to the hilt. Become transfixed and transfigured — Forever.
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