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“Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission.”

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“Girls are born with all of the eggs they will ever make. Tiny future fighters are nested inside the infant bodies of baby girls. Men are dead ends, but girls are infinite backwards and forwards.”

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“Kate thinks, Everything in my life has been leading up to this moment. This ability to believe that something as fickle and useless as time gone by has the human capability of intention is Kate's greatest hindrance, but also her greatest asset. Kate has the delusion of believing that events travel in a circle and that events circle her, which, while untrue, does lead to the competitive edge of entitlement.”

Fate Entitlement

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“She had needed another person in her life to tell her that she was a real person, and that she might not be special, but that she was fine.”

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“Rachel laughs out loud when people call her pretty. It's always older or middle-aged women who say it. The women say it in the type of way that conveys that they have nothing to else to offer - no specifics. It comes out ragged and awful, always, not because Rachel doesn't believe she is capable of some kind of beauty, but because she knows she doesn't have the beauty that these middle-aged women want, and that they are lying through their teeth.”

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“Even when your mother is asking you to do her a favor (be a good girl) it sounds like she is asking you to wear a coat made out of clear plastic. How do words get like that? thinks Rachel. How do words become so gross and synthetic?”

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“What a sad thing, to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. God, how I hate the sound of it. Good girl, thinks Rachel, is mountains and mountains worse than good boy. All a good boy has to do to be good is put on a clean shirt. Nobody wants to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. There can't be a single girl in here who wants to be just fine.”

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“When she arrived in Reno, Tanya Maw thought that Las Vegas, from the perspective of her car, had looked like one of Reno's parents. Was Las Vegas Reno's mother? If so, who was Reno's fathers?”

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“The stylists at the salon Artemis goes to never seem to listen. Don't cut too much, she tells them. I need it long, she says to them. She always leaves the salon feeling like some part of herself has been stolen.”

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