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“Here, the make of my bag, the quality of my clothes, the style of my hair, none of that matters. My skin speaks first.”

“They often passed each other in the kitchen like strangers in a shopping.”

“And I was their baby. A little girl watching her mom, trying to understand how to be a person.
And at one point my mom was a baby too. A little girl watching her mom.”

Why did I choose this job? Why did I pursue this? Why didn't anyone warn me that I'd spend days telling people not to cook meat in the bathroom while hearing others chant from outside that I'm a pedophile? I just wanted to be around books and help people. I could go home right now, lie under the lavender comforter on my bed with my cats, and apply for a job in a law library or as a cataloger. I don't have to do this.

“I don't consider if Joy will think I'm a nag, or find me unattractive, if I look bad when I tell her I'm upset. I speak to her openly. I don't weigh the pros and cons of expressing my honest thoughts and feelings to her. I'm not plotting what I do, say, and wear like I'm an actress in a play prepping for a scene. I'm not playing the part of her partner. I am her partner.”

“I'd sooner defend the image of me as a hideous, withered hag, rather than the image of me as a coy, quiet, sexualized teenaged girl. It's appalling that i was trained to behave the way I was when I was younger, and I think of it as a societal betrayal and a depraved way to treat girls.”

“We’d pay thousands of dollars to feed distant relatives dry, unseasoned chicken, and we'd take photos with big fake smiles in our kitschy wedding regalia, like clowns. I'd post the photos on social media annually to assert how inspira-tionally normal I was.”

“She has no idea that I considered her, and other people, so much that I diluted myself for years, sacrificed, a significant portion of my life, just to win her and other people’s approval.”

Very hunger games coded. Game makers are deciding whose task is to dance, and who has to take a poop on the concrete.

I love this ! What’s real when cameras are rolling, and everyone is rewarded for secret tasks?

“She would say that this is just a job, and while I care about my job, it isn’t my whole life. The grass is going to keep growing. The stars aren’t going to burn out. At the end of the day, I’m standing here telling people to mute their porn. Nothing is so serious.”

I think this book is going to fundamentally change me.

“The government wants to manipulate you, that’s the only reason it exists.”

“The most eminent zoologist, whose article claimed the virus was a lie, had an opportune accident. He thinks it was all staged to reduce overpopulation. For as long as he can recall, there’s been talk of the scarcity of resources.”

“The ones who decided she was expendable, who rendered her life meaningless in their relentless pursuit of progress.”

“We’re silent in our grief. We mourn together. Our bodies. Our autonomy. Our selves.”

This is starting to get spookyyyyh

“Soon, only the healthy rich ones will be left. Just like they want.”

“They’re having to decide between starving their kids or merging them. Hoe do you make that kind of choice?”

“I didn’t have the energy to explain how the wealthy are able to maintain their individuality, keep their homes and their families, while the poor are being stripped away of everything, forced into a shared existence.”

“How can they kill kids and nobody does anything?” Has me crying at the dog park

“Men do evil everyday and call it their job”.

“If I’d left him, I would’ve left you, too” is diabolical from a mother.

“Your identity, inseparable from your work, was what you’d sell when you went out into the world.”

O I’m gonna eat these art kids up!!!

“Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but in the places where the bombs are built and launched it will have no bearing on mortgages, bills, employment. Indeed, in many of these places, what will have a real economic effect is if the bombing stops.”