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“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“... the overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Spy

“Navy personnel began clamoring for it. To the embarrassment of many, the current Navy working uniform is a blue camouflage print. Unsure whether perhaps I was missing the point, I asked a Navy commander about the rationale. He looked down at his trousers and sighed. “That’s so no one can see you if you fall overboard.” No”
― Mary Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War