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"Rippling over all of those strings came Dee, with her blond hair pulled into tight pigtails braided by her mother, who believed girls should be buckled in for as long as possible."

Lines 1 and 2: The best sex joke ever. But you need to start reading at page 162 in order to appreciate it. And then, heck, keep reading through mid-167 for the wrap-up.

"To put you out of your misery, here's the full diagnosis: Social Anxiety Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder, and Depressive Episodes.
"Episodes. Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is 'Will I ever get rid of this shit?' and believe me, it gets pretty monotonous."

"But Karen was larger on the inside than on the outside. She had no boundaries. Anything might affect her. She was significant everywhere, like one of those atom bombs that fits in a suitcase."

"The angst was: That you only live once. That you shouldn't waste your youth. She had no lover, no close friends, no underground theater group to perform her self-censored plays.... She didn't spend enough time honing her craft. Et cetera, ad nauseum. It was the worry about not making the most of herself. The thing that troubles nearly all of us, nearly every day."

"He was strong, and the energy that kept him motionless was his own. Expending it on self-defeat exhausted him every day."

"The Jesus I love has a nonconformist understanding of his faith. He realizes that the petty rules and laws laid down by the fathers and authorities are meaningless, and that to believe in a loving God is to refuse to stand in judgment of any fellow mortal."

"It is my personal belief that the abhorrence of abortion expressed by the men who place themselves at the barricades in front of abortion clinics is actually a misplaced horror at women's sexual autonomy. It stands to reason: women's sexual independence is the thing that men have always wanted to control."

"You'd be amazed at how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, is a lot of study time."

"Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities.... Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting. Comedy is bound to be enriched. New facts are bound to be discovered."

"...who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?..."

"The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes."

"All was dim, yet intense too, as if the scarf which the dusk had flung over the garden were torn asunder by star or sword -- the flash of some terrible reality leaping, as its way is, out of the heart of the spring."

"...she believed in national self-determination for the Third World as well as liberal democracy and regulated capitalism, which was, she said, to believe that the invisible hand of the market should wear the kid glove of socialism."