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“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”

Shawn is PISSING ME OFF

“Sweetheart, love is humiliating. Hasn’t anyone ever told you that?”
“Who would have told me that?”
“Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.”
“Like hummus?”
“Like earth. It grounds you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that’s not real. It should feel like the earth.”

“The difference between coffee and your opinion is that I asked for coffee.”

“Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.”

“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”

“Women couldn’t join the military as pilots, and now NASA will only take military pilots. Ergo, women can’t be NASA pilots. It’s a nice little work-around they’ve got themselves there.”

Yo the first chapter of this book is absolutely gripping. I am hooked on the first few pages alone