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"No one is all good or all bad. I know this, of course. I had to learn it at a young age," but the audience doesn't know how she learned this.

"I like that you're full of crap only when it gets you something." p97

"That is the fastest way to ruin a woman's reputation, after all — to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction." p119

read on 8/9

read on 8/8

"When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things." p35

"taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares" p257

"The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist." p134

"It's no small thing to commit yourself to other people." p178

""A tree cannot grow in its parents' shadows"... What does this one mean if you live in a cul-de-sac with a wall around it? What does it mean if you're damned lucky to live in a cul-de-sac with a wall around it?" p82-83

"There's always a lot to do before you get to go to heaven." p85

"Otherwise, I'll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gather students, and teach." p125

"If you can think of ways to entertain them and teach them at the same time, you'll get your information out." p66

"All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can't afford water, food, or shelter." p17

"Perhaps this was what living in the moment was about: an active state of denial about the future." p203-204

"Maybe this is why we did things in groups. Maybe this is why people had friends: so we could see ourselves and our own insanity in them." p118

"In an instant the world had gone from black and white to Technicolor again." p76

I, too, am this dramatic when my crush texts me back.

Was turned off by the objectification right off the bat, but I'd like to think the main character has just internalized society's disparagement of women and now projects her insecurities (which at 38, you would hope she would have addressed these reductive views within herself by now)