"If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences."
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"Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia."
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"Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative."
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"Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun."
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"No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything."
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"The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body."
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"Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel."
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"I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me."
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"the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books"
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"Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel."
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"He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind."
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"Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive - she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do."
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"As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much."
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"She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement."
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"Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile."
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"Nature compensates for its mistakes."
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"When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time."
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"It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it."
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"You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too."
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"Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher."
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