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"He felt also a thrum of excitement at the thought that perhaps his unbelonging did not doom him to existing forever on the margins, that perhaps, instead, it made him special."

'Well,' she drawled, I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.'

"They were men at Oxford; they were not Oxford men."

"IfThey're going to tell stories about you, use it to your advantage. The English are never going to think I'm posh, but if I fit into their fantasy, then they'll at least think I'm royalty."

"But that's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already."