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"The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored."


This book is cracking my shit UP!!!

"People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. "

"Do you imagine that refusing the forbidden fruit would've made them happier? Would that have eliminated regret or merely redefined it?"