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Dorothy is freakyyyy

I feel like she is avoiding her own body, even hating its bodily functions? She is quite fascinating as a character.

“And so perhaps it was entirely possible—common even—for you to look into the eyes of someone you’d been falling in love with, someone you had spent every waking moment with, whose breathing sounded as familiar as your own—and fail to recognize them at all.”

Preach.

“Who cared if it was unpaid overtime? Who cared if it meant thirty extra hours a week for which they would not be credited, at the same time that they were still burdened with coursework?”

“Just assume we are one person. Your ends are my ends and vice versa. What hurts you hurts me, our goals are staying together, and pursuing what is best for ourselves as a joint unit.”

”You only had to try hard enough, to grind through sleepless nights, to meet his every impossible standard so that he considered you worthy of respect. This was fair. Wasn’t that just how academia worked? How any competitive industry worked? The best students got the best jobs.“

I can’t express just how much this book currently resonates with me!

Surprisingly, this book is such a good time.

Currently re-reading

… oh