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61 " We let our fathers carry our stuff up into our new rooms and our mothers make up our beds with new linen, something we probably wouldn’t do in a few months’ time after a single gender studies module convinced us we knew more about the world than our parents had learned from decades of living in it. "
― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Liar's Girl
62 " Because of bad memories. Because of the constant threat of someone realising who I am and asking me about him. Because every girl I went to school with, it seemed to me, had efficiently done all the things you’re supposed to do by now – get coupled up, borrow the price of a house, add to the population – leaving me standing out like some unwanted, spinster thumb. Because "
63 " Jesus Christ.’ I stood up and started making a loop around the table, just because I couldn’t stay still any more. ‘Are you serious? Your big concern here is that I don’t have a boyfriend? Not everyone wants the same things, Mam. And guess what? It’s not the fucking Fifties. "
64 " It was about the size of a half-dozen egg carton, and just as clunky. Sharp corners, thick buttons, sliding switches (switches!) and a matchbox-sized screen. Its dull grey case was heavily scratched and the strap was missing. I pressed the ON button but nothing happened, the batteries inside long dead. "
65 " and that you couldn’t go there without meeting someone you knew or someone who knew you. "
― Catherine Ryan Howard , The Nothing Man