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"You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something that isn't our fault - all because they can't control their fear about what we can do, anymore than they can control their resentment that there are people out there stronger and more powerful than they are. They want to strip you of yourself - your ability to protect and enforce your right to make decisions about your life. Your own body. Mark my words: in the end, it won't be a choice. They'll decide this for you."
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"Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly."
"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
"But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children."
"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try."
"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."
"But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress."
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
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"Also, screw you-maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can getus there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs.'Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look, she muttered."
"Why are you so weird?'Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.'At least what I do is considered an art form.'Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch."
"I can't - I can't think about anything or anyone else,' he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. 'I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe - I just - 'Liam, please,' I begged. 'You're tired. You're barely over being sick. Let's just... Can we just go back to the others?'I love you.' He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. 'I love you every second of everyday, and I don't understand why, or how to make it stop - ' He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.'I know it's wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like I'm sick. I'm trying to be a good person, but I can't. I can't do this anymore."
"Life isn't fair.' I said. 'It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You'll make plans, and it'll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they'll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You'll try for something and won't get it. You don't have to find meaning in it; you don't have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That's your job."
"Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?"
"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."
"Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone."
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