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“You think it’s your baby but it’s all of ours”

Page 100, active or passive whaling

“It not sadness it is not grief it is not loneliness it is not being unloved (though it is, too, those things) it is the feeling that no matter what you do, no matter who you are, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change.” Page 94

“These two stories are as old as time: the way adults hide your body because everyone is tempted by it, and the way you hate your body because no one is tempted by it.” Page 75

“Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?”

“After that, no matter how hard she tried she could not stop … now matter how hard she tried, she was never able to change back.”

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“This is the curse of being alive: you get hungry.”

Page 60

“But the character Miss Viola Swamp disturbs me. When my mother reads us the book, I get confused about the nature of reality. It’s clear she is only Miss Nelson in a different outfit, but Miss Viola Swamp is alluring in a way Miss Nelson could never be. Miss Viola Swamp is the hot core, the narrative center – as if she is the real character, and the nice teacher the costume.” Page 51