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61 " It becomes even more interesting when you take away your hero’s morals, along with what he loves. Which, generally, manifests as a person. The love interest. "
― Laurie Elizabeth Flynn , The Girls Are All So Nice Here
62 " I kept grinding beef and maggots of rice between my molars, because that was preferable to actually speaking. "
63 " I had feigned shock when my acceptance to Wesleyan came in the mail. I wasn’t surprised, but I felt the need to pretend I was, and I didn’t understand why. It would be years before I realized that girls weren’t supposed to own their ambition, just lease it from time to time when it didn’t offend anyone else. "
64 " I was constructing a fairy tale in my head, trying to build a whole palace where I didn’t even have enough to work into a straw hut. "
65 " (...) the only way to dismantle someone is to take away what they love. "
66 " The real power didn’t come from being wanted. It came from not wanting anything back. "
67 " Flora and Sully were like the sun and moon, me an obedient satellite orbiting around them. "
68 " Billie, a hopeless romantic, even after she stood up at our wedding, saying she knew from the first time she met Adrian that we’d end up together. I don’t know if it’s disgusting or impressive that girls can do that for each other. That we can achieve that level of deceit in the name of sisterhood. "
69 " Maybe that’s why I hated her—not because she had who I wanted but because she had what I wanted, qualities I could never embody when I tried. Because she was nice, and that was its own power. "
70 " She’s the type of woman who insists that we have to empower other women, only to peel them apart and chop them up. "
71 " Because it was never just about the boy. It was about the girl standing in the way of the boy. Maybe it had been about her the entire time. "
72 " Being wanted is what sets some of us apart from the rest. The world makes it goddamn clear that no matter how much a woman does, she’s nothing if she’s not also some man’s beautiful. "
73 " In a way, I’m just getting started. "
74 " Marrying Adrian was like looking into a perpetually flattering mirror. He sees me as the person I want to be. I wish I could see that girl as clearly. "
75 " The real power didn’t come from being wanted. It came from not wanting anything back. It came from not wanting anything, period. "
76 " She taught us to contain our emotions until we were in an appropriate place to let them out, as if emotions were caged animals and we were the zookeepers. "
77 " But this is Sully’s power—not necessarily making people believe her, but leading them to doubt themselves. "
78 " In brief snatches of conversation, I overlaid their names with Buddy, because they were as disposable as the used condoms I wrapped in toilet paper and threw in the wicker garbage basket beside my bed. "
79 " For every girl who got what she wanted at a cost she couldn’t afford "
80 " It's hard to separate anything from Trixie. Her friendship altered me, made me change shape in more ways than I ever knew was possible. Her voice is in my head. She's under my skin, a tattoo nobody else can see. "
― Laurie Elizabeth Flynn , Last Girl Lied To