A book page from a fantasy novel covered in a chaotic mess of words in varying fonts meant to convey the sound and visuals of all the townsfolk’s thoughts made public. The book is Patrick Ness’s “The Knife of Never Letting Go,” which takes place on a distant planet which humans colonized before realizing that something about the planet made their thoughts no longer private.
head so full of noise
that the roar sounds like silence
body paralyzed
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