They helped turn us readers into the women we are today. Not because we embraced all the values the books implicitly endorsed, but because they gave us space to explore our identities, dream of the future, and, when the time came, engage in
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“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.”
― The Mysterious Benedict Society
― The Mysterious Benedict Society
“It’s safer knowing more about people than they know about you.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“At the time, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Here’s some advice: Don’t ever think that.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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