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Ask me why I haven’t DNFed this book… I’m just pushing through for the sake of the bookclub…

"Madame Rosa used to tell me that you grow faster if you dream a lot."
"I stopped being ignorant when I was three or four, and sometimes I miss it."
"Of course her mind was never a hundred per cent at rest, because for that you've got to be dead. Life is always a panic."
"People seem to care more about life than anything else, which is funny when you think of all the wonderful things there are in this world."

"What would he be to any of them? Would they like him less? More? Or would he discover -- as he often feared -- that what he understood as friendship was really motivated by their pity of him? How much of who he was inextricable from what he was unable to? Who would he have been, who would he be, without the scars, the cuts, the hurts, the sores, the fractures, the infections, the splints, and the discharges?"