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“You write a lie on a card and you read it often enough, you’re going to believe it.”

“When you write it out, you build brain cells. Every time you [think of something], you’re giving more energy to those brain cells. Those ideas become fixed in your mind, and that’s the way you’ll live. Cary Grant said ‘I acted like Cary Grant for so long, I became him.’”

“Men are, on average, more than twice as likely to interrupt women as women are to interrupt men.” Mmmmhm.

“I am one man with a certain perspective, hopefully correct in some things—and, if incorrect in other things, I ask my readers only to understand that any errors come out of a place of seeking the truth and my ability to understand the situation.” Valid.

This book makes me feel bad for judging people who said Galileo was crazy. Like ofc they would think he was crazy, his theories challenged everything they believed to be true, including what their church told them??

I’m going to be so fr I’d take the million dollars. Nope out of there and never see those psychos again. Who cares about POTENTIALLY having power?? And potentially dying instead?? Nah man

I’ve been soooo curious to reread this series that I adored (but maybe never actually finished?) as a kid but didn’t want to invest that much time so this is perf

Don’t EVEN bring up Rosalind Franklin to me. I will begin foaming at the mouth in anger at the men (whose names I refuse to learn) who stole the credit for her world-changing discoveries.

“Women can, to a certain extent, accept men as role models, but men won’t do the same for women. Women will buy books by and about men, but men won’t buy books by and about women, or at least not many.”

“When you say man, you don’t include women, do you? Even if everybody does technically know that… When the generic masculine is used, people are more likely to recall famous men than famous women, estimate a profession as male-dominated, suggest male candidates for jobs and political appointments. Women are also less likely to apply and to perform well in interviews for jobs that use the generic masculine.”

Bbg you don’t need a Christmas Day puppy to solve your problems!! You’ve got a Boxing Day boy!!

“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them, but it’s like trying to hold onto a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands. By the time you finally see each other you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.”

The outfit descriptions are SENDING me. So very 2014

This whole book wouldn’t exist if someone told her dad not to go through her things and donate them to Goodwill without her permission or knowledge??

“I wonder what an ordinary baby might do if it had the choice. It might prefer to stay in the dark and warmth and safety of the womb. For of course, it would think the womb meant safety. That would be just where it was wrong. For if it stays there, it would die.”

“He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of… You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage, but he is building a palace. He intends to come live in it himself.”

“Very often, the only way to get a quality in reality, is to start behaving as if you had it already… The moment you realize ‘here I am, dressing up as Christ’, it is extremely likely that you will see at once some way in which at that very moment, the pretense could become less of a pretense, and more of a reality.”

“It is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some different direction.”

“I smiled. I was going to get cards next year.” TEARS

“We know you’re strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.”

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

This quote is my Roman Empire

“You are sunlight falling through trees. You are the laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion.”

STOP DEMEANING YOURSELF/YOUR LOOKS IN FRONT OF KIDS/TEENAGERS!! I WILL HIT YOU!!

Naming your twins after your sister’s dead husband is… an interesting choice. No matter how close of friends you were lol

Spend time with your friends!!!

“We are forever elsewhere”

“I tell people I’m allergic to tomatoes, but it’s a lie to not have to explain that I just don’t like them.” I feel so seen

“There is no just before friends. Friendship is one of the most valuable relationships in our lives. It’s where we learn to trust. Where we learn to love.”

nooooooooooooo another age gap book!!!!!! booooooo hisssssssss curses on your lineage!!!!!!

“Promise me you’ll try, try to find your true love. You can look where you least expect to find it. That’s usually how I find my glasses.”