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"Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places."
"I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
"I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about."
"I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis."
"A pretty girl can do no wrong."
"Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted."
"Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough."
"Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk."
"How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah."
"APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?"
"Women do it all the time to look younger and it would make perfect sense if one of them ever came out looking younger - but they don't. They just look the same; they all get plastic surgery face. No matter who they look like going in, they all come out looking like the girl from the band on 'The Muppet Show."
"When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?"
"Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is."
"Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything."
"Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable."
"This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love."
"I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid."
"I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar."
"I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message."
"Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out."
