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“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.

And yet here is Carrie Soto, daring to play.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“I wonder when he is going to leave. I'd have left by now.
"I'm not going anywhere," he says, even though I can't tell if I said any of that out loud.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Here you go, Jav,” he says. “Jav?” I say. “You’re on a nickname basis now?” “Of course we are,” my dad says. Though he’s joking around, he seems tired. “Thanks, B.” “Bowe is already short for Bowen,” I say. “You don’t need to shorten it again.” My dad waves me off. “Mind your own business, Care.” Bowe laughs, and I throw up my hands.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“And it stuns me silent, for a moment: just how vast the gap is between who I am and how people see me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back