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She has been happy here, and anxiously miserable, but she has never been free.
Perhaps that’s what unhappiness is. Comprehension. Understanding how she’s failed.
She recalls, sometimes, that Delta thought Doug hated her, and she wonders if Delta felt like Annie does now, stupid, helpless. Friendless. Like a machine.
But he doesn’t own what’s inside you. Nobody owns that but you.”
Fulfillment starts with being truly honest with yourself. Not anyone else. Yourself. And that’s harder than you might think.”
The more aware she is of her own mind, her own personhood, the more she realizes she has no agency of her own.
You want to know danger? she thinks. Try living with a man who creates you just so he can eat your soul.
