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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not of the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”

“I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure. The sun goes and the egg fades.”

“This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

“We were a society dying of too much choice.”

“There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.”