But I’d only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us…but within that inch, we are free. [. . .] An inch. It is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

— from Valerie’s letter in “V for Vendetta”