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"But! When someone calls what is necessary for you a hobby– as if it is a trivial reprieve, you know, a rest, a break from an arduous life and not the arduous life itself– they are trying to control you."

"Young women need their unfairness, it's one of their few defenses."

" but it was not a comfort to sit with someone whose pain mirrored mine. I don't know what it was."

"Has she ever seen anything more perfect and strange? It's been an unseasonably warm December, but the holidays came anyway, talk of nuclear war in the news, people destroyed by grief, and in the dark were grown women, barefoot, behaving like girls who'd never heard a word of it."

"anger is a useful tool... but I think it is a weapon– a tool useful only in combat and self-defense."

Didn't love Theroux's book of essays, but i've always loved this story and i'm excited to sit with it again

" Yes, we were quite the pair. What we hadn't thought would fill an ocean."