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“You looked up and away, as you did whenever I said something that made you wish I wasn't so stubborn or vague or difficult or indecisive. Or flippant. Or sarcastic. Those were some of the things you didn't like me to be. You rubbed your forehead. I seemed to make you tired. I seemed to make you wish I hadn't ever existed at all.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“I was borne by an impulse so powerful that, had a guard appeared at that moment, even if he were twice my size, I'd have knocked him over and trampled him underfoot; I was possessed by a wild joy that was heedless of all else.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“The fact was, I could use my thoughts as I pleased, the idea of wasting them was absurd.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Me too', 'Me too'. Rebellion was stirring, it was plain that this time, they would not be caught unawares, as must have happened in the past, that they wouldn't allow themselves to be overtaken by events like terrified creatures who could be led to the slaughterhouse, because they could not conceive of the slaughterhouse.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men