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1 " Brains are more effective than beauty. Only the world tries to make women forget it. They don't want us to be too smart ... They're scared that if they encourage it, we'll end up more intelligent than the men. With the secret being ... that we already are. "
― Karin Tanabe , A Hundred Suns
2 " A man who was not my husband, and would never be my husband, because he had no prospects or common sense. That was the best kind of man to have attached to you in a subway. "
― Karin Tanabe , A Woman of Intelligence
3 " I want to sleep next to you and listen to you exist. "
― Karin Tanabe , The Gilded Years
4 " was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do. "
― Karin Tanabe , The List
5 " Trust me, you are far luckier than I was. I was taught that the only reason to better myself was so that I might marry a remarkable man. No one told me to be remarkable myself. "
― Karin Tanabe , The Diplomat's Daughter
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7 " I like you because you’re nothing like Daisy and Rose and Violet and all the other women my mother has tried to set me up with who were named after flowers yet have no roots, just petals that will wilt fast. Your petals are going to last. "
8 " The change was electrifying, like taking a long, hot bath after years of lukewarm showers. "
9 " Never alone. I was still never alone. In a town of nearly eight million, there were still familiar eyes on me. "
10 " I could see the entire city, from Harlem to Battery Park, the steam and heat, the limestone and concrete. "
11 " I’m telling you now, long before I should, that I think you’re the perfect person for the job. "
12 " Turner Wells. I repeated the name in my head a few times. It felt like one that had been carefully inscribed on birth certificates for generations. "
13 " She watched the world in front of her, the horizon line now impossible to discern, and thought that even when men were trying their best to become monsters, nature refused to give in. What was beyond her couldn’t be easily altered by human stupidity. "
