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"Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked. "Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present."
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"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."
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"I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you."
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"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
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