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1 " I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather? "
― Gabrielle Zevin , Young Jane Young
2 " In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness. "
3 " Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said. "
4 " Why are you so quiet?” he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about. "
5 " They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for. "
6 " ...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect. "
7 " Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,” Mimmy says. "
8 " My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn’t had enough time to get good again. "
9 " The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don’t make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you’re always good, the story will be very short. "
10 " Because the things we don’t have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don’t have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect. "
11 " You are not a beautiful girl, and even if you were, you know that is not related to how much sex a person has. Plenty of ugly people have sex. Plenty of ordinary people have sex. Plenty of beautiful people spend their nights alone. "
12 " You call your mother. You’re in a panic, but as soon as your mother answers the phone, you relax. When your mother is worrying about something, it means that you won’t have to. "
13 " True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you. "
14 " You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself. "
15 " When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather? "
16 " My point is, it’s tempting,” she said. “It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun. "
17 " Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening "
18 " An “online presence” is “all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet. "
19 " When you think of your mother, the word that occurs to you is too. She hugs you too hard, kisses you too long, asks you too many questions, worries too much about your weight/your love life/your friendships/your future/your water consumption. She loves you with an almost religious fervor. She loves you too much. The love makes you feel embarrassed for her and almost guilty—other than be born, what have you done to deserve such love? "
20 " The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not. I can even eat my brown sugar and butter crêpes because, oy gevalt, I'm so distracted by these fingernails. I mean, what was he doing before he came on this date? Competitive gardening? Burying the last woman he dated? "