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"Until that summer, she had never felt at home in the house of her body." And how long do so many of us go without ever feeling at home?

"But the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink. Drunk men frightened her. She had learned young how to coddle them, how to laugh just enough at their bad jokes to prevent them from feeling insulted, but not so much that her laughter egged them on. Coiled just below a surface of good humor lay their strength and their meanness, two guns waiting to go off." pg. 253

Reading entirely too many books at once (classic)