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I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

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Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

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I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

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But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of ...more

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But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

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Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it...more

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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable mone...more

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She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been p...more

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Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives....more

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Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.

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Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood,...more

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She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.