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“Because time travel is very fucking complicated, Corporal!” 😂

““I am not sure which I prefer: to be taken for something I am not, or to fail at being what I am“… I knew what it was to feel like you were doing a poor impression of what you were.”

“…that was your decision. The fact that you aren’t enjoying the consequences does not brag that the responsibility for your discomfort is suddenly mine to account for”

“A yearning for Control over the important things by maintaining a rigid grip on the unimportant”

“…I gave up on the idea that I was going to solve the problem of wanting things by sitting alone in my room, trying as hard as I could Not to want anything... I wanted more than anything for solitary despair and self. recrimination to provide me with the tools to build a bright and livable future . never mind, solitary despair had never produced anything for me, but additional solitary despair.”

“ I would be reneging on the promise that my body had made to others”
Fuuuuuuuccccckkkkkj me

“I don’t believe there is an inherent virtue in lifelong gender consistency” 💯

Omg the parallel parking 🤣🤣🤣

“ I liked it when others were pleased; to me, this was the same as liking the thing itself.”

“It’s never going to make sense. there’s no master equation, there’s no hidden key. it’s just tragedy and bullshit and chaos.”
“you don’t think there’s a scientific explanation for May 23rd?” Agent Layne asks.
“I was talking about life” I clarify

“A holiday lodge is the lost sock portal in the back of your washing machine for moldy paperbacks”

“As if my vertebrae were rusted shackles “

“Do not scrutinize my words and forget to listen.”

“90% of male rage is helplessness, masquerading as frustration… I came to understand that the crucial factor for me was the shame I felt about having been victimized. as is the case with many men, I had flipped that shame into a feeling of grandiosity. shame feels bad grandiosity feels good.”

“Short-sleeping subjects ate about 300 extra calories worth of food the following day, compared with when they were well rested.”

“One doesn’t leave rights on the table, you know?”

“Nature is quite happy for us to be fat and frankly doesn’t care if we get diabetes”

“Exercise is so effective against the diseases of aging… that it has often been compared to medicine, a comparison which I think is overly generous to medicine”

“ an empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel. The trouble is, that it is less impersonal.”

“ Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful”

“Do not try to prove you are generous by letting yourself be hurt”

“Her eyes were so narrow it was like she was holding her breath with her entire face”

“Hatred was the fear people let themselves enjoy” 😮😮😮🤯🤯🤯

As many anachronisms as there are, I do really appreciate how each plot so far has been at least tangentially related to the law that there are trying to pass — the first one being divorce and this one being something’s about a physician’s registry.

“ apparently there could be a wrong time to invoke Salt-N-Pepa” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

OK maybe this will come clear, but if murder is “not so bad” then surely… adultery is equally “not so bad”?

“This forgotten cliff-edged corner of the northeast was his heart; the sea had left salt in his blood.”

“ the unflinching certainty of letters”

“He kept making me feel things in ruined places“

“Carefully modulated biochemical sanity”