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P. 145: “Most nights, the only way I can fall asleep is to convince myself that this version of me will blink out of existence, and the Macy of tomorrow will be forced to take over. A carbon copy Macy. Burdened with all my memories, all my failures, left to deal with the mess I’d left behind. Poor thing. But, just like me, she’d only have to cope for one day.”

P. 137: “You must be bothered by what goes bump in the night. But, that doesn’t mean it has to beat you. Hating a process should never equate to hating yourself. Victim or victor. It’s for you to decide: you either eat the fig or give a fig to all the devils.”

P. 137: “I once heard this priest tell her to give a fig to all the devils.” “A fig?” “Yeah, it’s a saying. Like, to give your demons the middle finger. To give someone a fig centuries ago was a figure of speech for controlling the situation with—with—fearless vigor!”